“I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.” PeopleTryingKindIdeasDifferentSometimesCharacterImaginationMalesAll KindsAngleMy ImaginationDifferent PeoplesDifferent Angles Author:Kate Bush
“My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and aggressive when they are depressed, while women show the more inward symptoms such as sadness, helplessness, and hopelessness.” MenDifferentShowsMy OwnSadnessBecomingMen And WomenAngryMalesAggressiveInwardSymptomsHopelessnessHelplessnessBecoming More Author:Jed Diamond
“Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it's shapeless and blandly apolitical, apart from its watered-down feminism. You see, Fey's Kim Baker - changed from Barker - transforms herself from a neophyte reporter, condescended to by male war correspondents, soldiers and Afghan officials, into a hard-charging political animal who speaks the language fluently and parties as hard as men. That's about as edgy as a sitcom.” MenWellsWarEndsHardPoliticalSpeakLanguageAnimalPartyFeminismChangedMarkMalesSoldierOfficialsReportersSitcomKimEdgyBakersChargingAfghanFeyApoliticalMissed OnesPolitical Animals Author:David Edelstein
“My role is almost a sight-gag. I have to be a woman to sing the lyrics "I am a man" to have it be a joke. I start the lyric in a male-register and a whole coloratura up into a soprano. And other points in the show... like the guy who likes to be treated like a baby and wear a diaper!” MenWholeShowsGuyRolesBabyJokesSightMalesLikesTreatedRegisterDiapersSopranosGags Author:Max von Essen
“I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.” FirstsCoursesLanguageViolenceCriticsMalesElderlyKoreanPortugueseBae Author:Deborah Smith
“Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature'. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice.” UseUsedLiteratureSexVoiceSceneFunctionMalesSexualityLabelsNarrativeEstablishmentDaringSurrealismHardcoreBengaliChronologyNarrative Voice Author:Deborah Smith
“We have to have positive male role models.” RolesModelsMalesRole ModelsMale Role Models Author:Donald Miller
“I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.” IfsPersonsCountryCommunityChurchRolesMillionsInvolvedPeriodsModelsInstitutionsMalesRole ModelsMale Role Models Author:Donald Miller
“It was believed by the purveyors of male fantasies in films that nurses were a popular male fantasy because they were caring, and they were women who could legitimately touch men all over.” MenFilmFantasyMalesCaringNurseTouch Me Author:Stephanie Rothman
“My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.” MenLooksLawFoundFatherAttentionHappenedBrotherDadMalesMy DadGood ManAlcoholicsSomewhere ElseAbsentIn-lawsBrother In Law Author:Jim Hamilton
“Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever was not significant until the development of a male-dominated medical establishment made possible the situation in which a professional might move from touching a corpse (for the purposes of study) to putting his unwashed hands up against, or into, a woman in labor.” ThinkingWayMadeProblemHandsMightWould BeMovingPurposeSituationStudyTheoryDevelopmentLaborHistoricalMalesMedicalSignificantOne WayTouchingEstablishmentCorpsesFeverGermsHands Up Author:Laura Mullen
“Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.” PeopleYearsFirstsSaidDifferentChristianTogetherChristChurchBrokenWallPicksFirst TimeFemaleOriginalsMalesJewStrangerScriptureWelcomeGreekVersesEthnicityDividingBroken DownGentilesTogether As OneAntioch Author:Michael Emerson
“Many boyfriends or close male friends seem so different when they are by themselves, as opposed to when they are with a bunch of other guys. I think it has to do with the desperate desire on the part of guys to be seen as a "real guy" - a real man, a man's man.” ThinkingMenDifferentRealSeemsDesireGuyMalesBunchDesperateOther GuysReal Men Author:Michael Kimmel
“Guys constantly talk about pornography in two ways: as revenge and as reassurance. When you live in a world in which beautiful, sexy women are all around you, in the same classes, on the same athletic field, competing for the same jobs, then the pornographic world - the world in which women thrill to male sexual desire - reassures men that although they may feel "one down," they're still entitled to women's bodies.” MenWorldWayFeelsMayStillsTwoBodyJobsBeautifulDesireGuyClassFieldsMalesSexyRevengeEntitledThrillCompetingPornographyAthleticTwo WaysReassuranceWomen's BodiesSexual DesireSexy Women Author:Michael Kimmel
“Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.” IfsThinkingWantLooksLittlesBookCharacterGirlStuffResponsibilityRolesModelsPercentDaughterFemaleWindowMalesStoresComicOddMy DaughterRole ModelsComic BookShelves Author:Mark Millar
“But then male directors also have a hard time getting their movies made... not as hard as women but it's a tough time for any movie this size. And that particular movie [The Hurt Locker] was so specific. It couldn't hurt, of course, and I'm really glad for her, but I don't know how much it will change things, if at all. The film industry is still so sexist.” IfsKnowsMadeStillsHardFilmCoursesHurtKnow HowParticularIndustryDirectorsToughMalesSizeGladHard TimesTough TimesSexistFilm IndustryLockersHurt Locker Author:Nicole Holofcener
“There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures.” DifferentDifferencesBrainFemaleStructureMales Author:Gerald Fischbach
“We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet, likely to have a minus 15 on my IQ, likely to not go to college and likely to wear my pants below my arse.” NeedsMeanPastBlackCollegeMalesPantsWalletsMinusArsesMug Author:John Amaechi
“Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher up you go... it's like how women who play in the WNBA make so little, compared to men in the NBA.” MenLittlesPlayIndustryHigherMusic IsMalesPlentyNbaWnba Author:Cassie Ventura
“I don't think that there's a guy behind the desk at every newspaper saying "No, woman" and sending her on her way, but that's what's systemic about it, right, like that people don't quite realize that maybe they're attracted to a male op-ed more than a female op-ed, or because of networking they know this person from going out to a bar with them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayPersonsGuyRealizingBehindsFemaleMalesNewspapersBarsGoing OutDesksNetworkingSaying No Author:Jessica Valenti
“Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.” PeopleWayKindCertainSpaceMalesReadership Author:Jessica Valenti
“I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.” StillsMatterFormWhiteClassNo Matter WhatMalesInjusticeArroganceRighteousWhite SupremacyHomophobiaSupremacyIndignationSubordinationRighteous Indignation Author:Cornel West
“You just don't really rehearse kissing scenes, whether it's male or female.” SceneKissingFemaleMales Author:James Franco
“To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So I mean that was one of the first things I said when I was talking to a friend of mine after he saw Peter Jackson's version of "King Kong."” FirstsMeanSaidAmericaBlackTalkingSawsMinesKingsMalesMetaphorObviousVersionsPeterBlack MalesKing Kong Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I have insanely dorky taste. Basically, if you're a woman, and you're under any kind of emotional duress, and you sing a song, I will listen to it forever. It's odd being a 37-year-old heterosexual male who owns nothing but Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos. But I'll go against that at first and play something boring like James Taylor.” IfsYearsFirstsKindPlaySongForeverEmotionalTasteMalesBoringOddDorkyDuress Author:Matthew Perry
“So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention... This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed.” WorldTwoHoursPleasureComedyCollegeEgoFemaleSuicideMalesIntellectWitWelcomeBubblesDistressLimitlessInventingExhilaratingPreventionSparklingRetroDamsel In DistressMale Ego Author:Peter Travers
“Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.” KnowsFirstsHeartDoneStudyStudentsThousandTenDoctorsMalesMedicalAgendasNancyHeart AttackProtocolAspirinWomen's Health Author:Barbara Mikulski
“A guy friend I was speaking to said he was talking to a group of male producersand he was just shocked that they said, "But if we give women directors a job they're going to take jobs away from the men." I almost fell out of my chair. But when I encounter this kind of thing, what I try to do is give a chiropractic adjustment to the mind, quickly.” IfsMenGivingTryingMindKindSaidJobsGuyTalkingGroupsHe ManDirectorsMalesEncountersChairsThey SaidShockedAdjustmentChiropracticGuy Friend Author:Rose McGowan
“I find it fascinating that Paul [the apostol], writing to the Galatians, responds to the question, "What does it mean to live in Christ?" by saying, "There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."” WritingMeanDoeJesusChristFemaleSlaveMalesJewGreekFascinatingGalatians Author:John Shelby Spong
“"You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's." Your neighbor is clearly a male, and the woman, the ox and the ass are property of the male. That's not morality I will salute today.” TodayWifeMoralityPropertyMalesNeighborAssSalute Author:John Shelby Spong
“Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.” FemaleMalesComedian Author:Chris Gethard
“Growing up in the South, it was very patriarchal. When I applied to Stanford, I was told by a [male] college counselor, "You're never gonna get in, don't bother. They don't want you." I said, "I'm going to try." And I got in! But I wouldn't be the woman I am if I hadn't had that conflict to overcome. It has given me an underdog feeling all my life.” IfsWantTryingSaidFeelingsGivenGrowing UpGrowingCollegeConflictOvercomingSouthMalesBotherUnderdogCounselorStanford Author:Reese Witherspoon
“In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon Demon," being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.” YearsMotherGirlForgivingMalesEdgesDemonWombRebornCrawlingNeonGod Forgives Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“The UK population became, for lack of a better term, Balkanized. And then all of a sudden Sharia mosques started popping up all over the place. And before you knew it, the most popular or frequent male baby name was Mohammed.” NamesTermBabyMalesPopulationMosquesPoppingSharia Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't think of those things [from farting, to male on male affection, to crossdressing] as being taboo, I suppose, so it didn't strike me as, "Oh, I'm breaking boundaries and stuff..."” ThinkingStuffMalesAffectionStrikesBoundariesTaboo Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“Male crews know that women cinematographers are here to stay, and there will be more of us. If they're professionals, they behave as such.” IfsKnowsMalesBehaveCrewCinematographers Author:Maryse Alberti
“The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either.” MenSleepModelsMalesCurrentsDrivingDeprivationBurnoutSleep Deprivation Author:Arianna Huffington
“I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters."” HateFemaleI HateOriginalsMales Author:Paul Feig
“Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that, because there have been so few movies that have allowed women to have these leading roles, so that's Hollywood's fault.” PeopleHas BeensRolesExampleFemaleHollywoodFaultsMalesEnsembleExpendables Author:Paul Feig
“I had more problems with the men in our own government, and not because they were male chauvinistic pigs but because they had known me for so long. I might have been a carpool mother and a friend of their wife, and so they'd been to my house for dinner and things like and they thought 'how did she get to be secretary of state when I should be secretary of state?' So that was more of a problem.” MenShouldLongHas BeensStatesProblemGovernmentMightMotherHouseKnownWifeHe ManMalesDinnerPigsSecretaryMight Have Been Author:Madeleine Albright
“I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.” PeopleIfsKnowsWarCharacterFireDangerStressMalesExtremity Author:George Packer
“I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against a class of people.” PeoplePersonsHas BeensClassPrejudiceMalesExcellentLegislators Author:Eleanor Smeal
“My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of the male directors wanted to blow things up so there was like an open area for somebody who wanted to direct women movies, chick flicks, whatever you... I don't call them chick flicks.” WantedMotherTeacherHonestDirectorsAreasDirectMalesBlowBeing HonestChicksChick FlickDance Teacher Author:Garry Marshall
“I believe that it is my job to fight for the rights of others to have the same rights that I take for granted. As a white, American male, I have had it quite good. I recognize that and fight every day for everyone to have the same opportunities that I have had.” BelieveJobsFightingOpportunityI BelieveWhiteRightsMalesGranted Author:Michael Skolnik
“My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.” PersonsSaidRealJobsMotherValuesFatherCompanyTalentColorPeriodsSkillsFemalePaidBlindMalesGenderExecutivesBest PersonReal Knowledge Author:Ivanka Trump
“I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.” ReadingWonderfulMalesExperimentsPermissionWonderful Things Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.” ThinkingSelfFictionMalesPityThemeSelf PityUnspokenNoir Author:James Ellroy
“So many times, white - non-college-education - educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G's, God being the woman's right to choose.” ThreeInterestWhiteEconomicCollegeRepublicanGayGunMalesEducatedCollege Education Author:Judy Woodruff
“Part of what we'll have to figure out is what do you call the male spouse of a female president? Now, it's a little bit more complicated with him because people still call former presidents Mr. President.” PeopleLittlesStillsBitsPresidentFiguresLittle BitFemaleMalesComplicatedFormerSpouseFemale President Author:Hillary Clinton
“I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.” FirstsNightBlackEqualDegreesPercentFemalePrisonMalesUniversityLawyerJailGraduatesEngineersGrandchildrenFillingCounterpartsIllinoisGreat GrandchildrenBlack Males Author:Louis Farrakhan