Male Quotes

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)
Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. View quote
James Thurber
The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
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. View quote
John Updike
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. View quote
Colette
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me. View quote
Courtney Love
Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power? View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
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. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. (Huey P. Newton)
He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package. View quote
Eloisa James
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation. View quote
Margaret Mead
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant. View quote
Margaret Atwood
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them. View quote
Camille Paglia
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men. View quote
Florence Nightingale
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. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. View quote
Wyndham Lewis
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. View quote
Rose Tremain
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?' (Allison Pearson)
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. View quote
Kate Millett
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self. View quote
Neil LaBute
Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up. View quote
Ashley Scott