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“Saudi Arabia's first female athlete will be allowed to compete while wearing a head scarf. The Saudi woman said she was thrilled about the ruling all she needs now is a man to drive her to the Olympics.”

Men Needs Firsts Said Funny Female Athlete Olympics Ruling Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Scarves London Olympics Female Athlete

Author:Conan O'Brien

“History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just women but men - we're asking men to dig deep and deconstruct their seat of privilege. Because this is an emergency. We're in threat of losing our homes, the future of our future generations, and the biological paradise that we're apart of. It's in the interest of all people that we lean on the feminine archetype in our movement forward.”

People Men Has Beens Home Body Interest Generations Movement Losing Female Asking Threat Males Privilege Paradise Seats Feminine Our Future Emergencies Future Generation Archetype Dig Deep

Author:Antony Hegarty

“Channing does a very good impersonation of men at female strip joints.”

Men Doe Female Very Good Joints

Author:Channing Tatum

“I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.”

People Thinking Men Way Comedy Female Males Comedian Compare Female Writers Female Comedian

Author:Mindy Kaling

“If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?”

Ifs Thinking Men Promise Female Lifetime Privilege Veils His Smile

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?”

Thinking Men Want Country America Walks Female Good Things Host Skirts Why Change

Author:Vanna White

“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.”

Men Looks Turns Vision Watches Objects Men And Women Female Sight Relation Males Determine Men Women Surveyors

Author:John Berger

“They're always such alive females. And also, all those love stories - no man in Austen has ever fallen in love with a female heroine because she's pretty or beautiful or has long, blonde hair. They fall in love with them because of who they are, because of their vibrancy and their intelligence and if only we were teaching that a bit more in schools.”

Ifs Men Long Stories School Beautiful Fall Bits Alive Teaching Hair Female Falling In Love Love Story Fallen Blonde Heroines Austen Blonde Hair Vibrancy Long Blonde Hair

Author:Anna Maxwell Martin

“A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.”

Men Friends Succeed Female Possession Valuable Clever Parks Devoted Muse Palaces Amiable Female Friends

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?”

Men Humans Quality Principles Female Complexes Gender Characteristics Feminine Attributes Masculine Mixtures Human Qualities Masculine And Feminine

Book:A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

“Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.”

Men Social Female Males Gentleman Constructs Masculinity Femininity Be A Man Ladies And Gentlemen Females And Males

Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.”

Men World Doe Use Culture Nature Men And Women Female Universal Males

Book:Sharing the world

Source: Sharing the world

“In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.”

“This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.”

Men Enough Perfect Female Perfection Strive Good Enough Toxic Striving For Perfection

Author:Jane Fonda

“Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.”

Men Use Sides Female Relate Describing

Author:Jane Fonda

“[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.”

Men Believe Has Beens Female Feminist Liberation

Author:Betty Friedan

“I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.”

Ifs Thinking Men Responsibility He Man Female Males Soviet Exes Obliged Pragmatic

Author:David Bezmozgis

“Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?”

Men Way Long Study Female Fellows Privilege Long Way

Author:Miles Franklin

“It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Hard Earth Universe Causes Lines Break Evolution Habit Moon Female Species Valuable Statements Nonsense Clue Ancestry Satellites Revolving

Author:Elaine Morgan

“In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is a nearly inescapable habit of mind, for despite all the customary pretense that 'man' and 'humanity' are terms which apply equally to both sexes, the fact is hardly obscured that in practice, general application favors the male far more often than the female as referent, or even sole referent, for such designations.”

“Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.”

“I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet.”

Men Years Waiting Share Car Amount Female Valet Female Friends

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.”

Men Mean Happens Ability Please Female Definitions Things Happen Make Things Happen

Author:Lois Gould

“God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.”

Men Differences Female Males Equality

Book:Womens Speaking

Source: Womens Speaking

“the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.”

Men Way Said Different God Spirit Language Sex Community Shapes Worship Messages Highest Female Males Instruction Consistently Preaching Identification Faith Community

Author:Elizabeth A. Johnson

“Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.”

Men Stills Book Young Names Female Males Disparity

Author:Sherwood Smith

“For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.”

Men Female Killing Female Power

Book:Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

“Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.”

Men Feels Female Inadequate Faking It

Author:Jess C Scott

“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons. So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle-though often quite pervasive-sense of superiority or contempt toward females, and some don't show any obvious signs of problems with women at all until they are in a serious relationship.”

“Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.”

Men Two Female Crosses Extremes Employed Spy Manipulate Dressers Two Extremes

Author:Karen Abbott

“I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel that especially within Game of Thrones, I think that as a show, it is one of the frontrunners for showing dominant female characters and making sure that men answer to women rather than the other way around.”

Thinking Men Way Feels Wells Character Facts Shows Games Strong Answers Female Relate Thrones Dominant Ruthless Female Characters Strong Female Characters

Author:Rose Leslie

“In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed or opened door.”

Men Home Differences Doors Female South Afghanistan Entering Norm Opened Doors

Author:Ksenia Solo

“Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.”

Thinking Men Different Games Process Interest Audience Design Men And Women Female Males Gamer Gaming Thinking Process

Author:Gary Gygax

“I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.”

Ifs Men Bigs Girl Easy Female Trusted Big Girl

Author:Maeve Binchy

“These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness”

Source: Children of Dune

“The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.”

Men Trying Sex Mystery Female Depth Fathom

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.”

Men War Female Iraq Iran Architect Female Friends

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.”

Men Jobs Teaching Female Including Average Traditional Occupation Nursing

Author:Sander Levin

“I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls.” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.””

Men Trying Firsts Wells I Can Play Whole Shows School Girl Audience Seeing Drama Female Whole Life Posts Discussion Curtains Arabia Uncommon Basements Stood Up Yale Curtain Call

Author:Wendy Wasserstein

“Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.”

Men Children Littles Book Different Girl Reading Deals Boys Four Daughter Female My Children Reading Books Hurdle

Author:Robert K. Massie

“I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.”

Thinking Men Wells Lost Sides Lines Quality Female Males Not Afraid Misunderstood Renaissance Great Qualities Renaissance Man Elizabethan

Author:Ben Kingsley

“You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.”

Ifs Men Feels Made Character Audience Gun Female Uncomfortable Villain Kill Me Monstrous Heroines Identifying Men Bashing

Author:Callie Khouri

“Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.”

Thinking Men Facts Cases Directors Projects Standards Female Males Obvious Fewer Stem Double Standard Hmm

Author:Lynn Shelton

“I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a masculine female. A she man and a he woman. What I am interested in is developing a singularity, which would be my own.”

Knows Men Would Be Used My Own He Man Female Males Developing Feminine Masculine Singularity Femme

Author:Orlan

“I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.”

Men Differences Education Habit Men And Women Female Males Casts Great Men Mold

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.”

Men Writing Black Differences White Female Males Combination Black And White White Man Black Women

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.”

Men Long Today Law Values Culture Half Taken Week Messages Female Abuse Function Males Killing Injustice Valuable Sentences Our Society Jail Misogyny Infidelity Equations Adultery

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.”

Men Giving Self Seems Suffering Imagination Greater Dangerous Comfort Giving Up Female Charity Cop Hierarchy Looking Down Perpetuating

Book:A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

Source: A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

“It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.”

Men Sex Strength Men And Women Female Fairs Weak Strongest Despise Cowardice Cowardly

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.”

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