Male Quotes
Sad Quotes about Male

Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
- Michael Reagan

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery.
I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
- Brigid Brophy

Because of our social circumstances,
male and female are really two cultures and their life
experiences are utterly different.
- Kate Millett

One of the things I really like about Ford's films
is how there is always a focus on the way characters live,
and not just the male heroes.
- Ken Burns

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke
to a scornful female is to stay away from her -
especially if that is what she desires.
- Booth Tarkington

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge
male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling,
not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex,
vital interweaving of both.
- Sylvia Plath

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro.
Again, if you were to ask me about male writers,
there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
- Ann Beattie

I come from the New York theatre world,
and I have a lot of gay male friends,
so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
- Debra Messing

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and
a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior;
she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
- Simone de Beauvoir

Male and female gossip also sounds different,
as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
- Kate Fox

The male image has been so pulled down by situation
comedy in the last 15 years,
it is frightening.
I don't like what has happened to the American male.
- Bill Bixby

I don't see any kind of mirror of power,
male power, that is, as a form of liberation.
I don't believe in an eye for an eye.
I don't believe this is truly freedom.
- Sandra Cisneros

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane -
they're all the same,
I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.
- John Hawkes

The women of the country have the power in their own hands,
in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
- Victoria Woodhull

It's always good when women win things in fiction because
it tends to be more male-dominated,
unlike poetry, which is more equal.
- Carol Ann Duffy

It is well within the order of things that man should
listen when his mate sings;
but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
- Anna Wickham

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male,
vindictiveness of the female.
- Cyril Connolly

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics.
The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.
- Stephen Tobolowsky

Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist,
about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist.
I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.
- William Devane

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member -
male or female.
They were all kind and welcoming.
- Sandra Day O'Connor

I am at war...
with the principal personage of traditional philosophy,
that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone,
but is really a male subject in disguise.
- Pam Gems

That common cold of the male psyche,
fear of commitment.
- Richard Schickel

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within
this male attention and to compete with each other
for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
- Audre Lorde

I am a liberated woman.
And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money.
But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
- Julie Andrews

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other
sex are messages signaling what we must do,
they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
- John Updike

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
- Irvine Welsh

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened
the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
- Suzi Quatro

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male;
he is the active principle of culture,
the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.
- Teresa de Lauretis

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does,
which is try to find scripts written for white actors -
or Jodie Foster,
who reads scripts for male actors.
- Wentworth Miller

I really wanted to be born a woman.
It all started there.
A South American woman.
And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male.
I've been angry since.
- Fisher Stevens

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a
taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life.
It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male
right of access to women.
- Adrienne Rich

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals.
To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
- Fran Lebowitz

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom,
who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life,
but who joined the army after war was declared.
- Patrick MacGill

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of
our historic society seems to me the equivalent of
closing male eyes to female facts.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

The male is a domestic animal which,
if treated with firmness and kindness,
can be trained to do most things.
- Jilly Cooper

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working
on both the female and the male.
And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
- Warren Farrell

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical,
because they display prejudices against half the human
race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
- Eva Figes

I think male roles are generally much better written.
So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying
to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.
- Judy Davis

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally
wondering about men from afar,
I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded
by the strange male brain.
- Cathy Guisewite

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

I AM a male chauvinist.
Who's been saying otherwise?
- Joe Bob Briggs

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural
defense for male violence -
a defense for it wherever it is,
which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
- Catharine MacKinnon

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that
is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor
and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.
- Jane Harman

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
- Rudyard Kipling

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess.
But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued,
what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?
- Charlie Sheen

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
- Huey Newton

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without
her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
- Billie Jean King

I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer,
so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch
of marines is quite attractive,
and probably a necessary dose of male energy.
- Rosamund Pike

For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something.
And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French
kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that.
- Alton Brown

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage
is that the two people are incompatible;
that is,
that one is male and the other female.
- Anna Quindlen

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most
obstinate vested interest one can find.
- Francis Aungier

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent
male characters over and over again,
no doubt because everybody knows that women understand
men much better than vice-versa.
- Peter Straub

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else.
Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
- Debra Wilson

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness
of her experiences would more often than not reach
a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
- Sonia Sotomayor

Male supremacy has kept woman down.
It has not knocked her out.
- Clare Boothe Luce

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching,
stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about.
That's not love, it's just rubbish.
- Peter Shaffer

In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy!
We really kick some male butt!
- Halle Berry

Usually when you see females in movies,
they feel like they have these metallic structures around them,
they are caged in by male energy.
- Bjork

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating;
we're not America's sweetheart.
- Scott Hamilton

I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences,
you know, they...
the demographic is 50% male.
- Graeme Murphy

You get elected, often, if you're a woman,
on the strength of the women's vote;
then you get into office,
and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
- Eleanor Clift

We showed the industry that female artists could attract
the same audiences as the big male stars.
- Sarah McLachlan

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble;
and the rough male kiss of blankets.
- Rupert Brooke

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female -
whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
- Simone de Beauvoir

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.
- Andrea Newman

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant,
at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger,
and everyone knows it.
- Josh Lucas

There's only one free person in this society,
and he is white and male.
- Hazel Scott

And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female
because God made both male and female.
- Little Richard

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person.
Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
- Don Marquis