Males Quotes - Page 15

Power is neither male nor female.

What if the genetically superior male is actually a bit of a dickhead?

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

No, you've got it all wrong, John." Reading his emotions, she shook her head. "You're not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You're twice what anyone else is because you survived.

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.

Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead.

Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

The advertising media in this country continuously informs the American male of his need for indispensable signs of his virility.

With 'Hostel II' I thought I had a very, very strong female audience so I'm going to make a movie that's going to appeal to them. The guys will love it, they'll have their moments. But there'll be a lot more male nudity in this one. I have a lot of sausage in this one!

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.

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..."

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature.

Bonobos really violate a rule of nature where usually if you're bigger, you're going to be dominant. But here, females are actually smaller. But they're still not dominated by males because they work together.

A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.

I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.

I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.