Quotes About Male Gaze

#1. True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.

David Wilkerson

#2. Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

Pharrell Williams

#3. I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you ... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

Kathleen Hanna

#4. If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

Jill Soloway

#5. Thoughts without their fulfillment - is the beginning of idleness.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. I will be able to love above all discontentment.
To give even when I am stripped of everything.
To dry tears even when I am still crying.
To believe even when I am discredited.

Paulo Coelho

#7. I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

Patrick DeWitt

#8. But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

Jay Chiat

#9. I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds.

Michael Martin Murphey

#10. When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.

Andy Warhol

#11. The girl anchors the stage, sucks in the male gaze, and, depending on who she is, throws her own gaze back out into the audience.

Kim Gordon

#12. Night reigned: all through the world tied bodies were harvesting tranquil slumber.

Virgil

#13. Oh, God. I'm in big trouble. Because I'm staring. I can't keep my eyes from ogling his chiseled triceps and biceps and every other eps ' he has. The butterflies in my stomach have just multiplied tenfold as my wandering gaze meets his.

Simone Elkeles

#14. While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.

Mariella Frostrup

#15. No truth could ever fear me.

George Harrison

#16. Fine," she hoisted her purse higher and her gaze snagged on the delicious bulge of his male butt hugged so lovingly in a pair of khaki cargo shorts. Wow. Talk about a glutenous maximus that defied gravity. Even though he was a complete jackass, she couldn't help but drool.

Julie Ann Walker

#17. Heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control.

Margo Demello

#18. Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature ... it is more than impersonation.

Leon Surmelian

#19. How this can happen is a mystery to us.

Ray Henault

#20. Chikako could see Nobue's flowers reflected in Kaori's eyes. They looked like stars. Like love itself.

Miyuki Miyabe

#21. The "male gaze," as a shaper of my life's choices, is largely incidental. Gender

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#22. Sheer male interest filled his gaze which was entirely focused on her. She'd never before felt so female, so utterly desirable, so wanton.

Jo Grafford

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

Jill Soloway

#24. Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?

Georgette Heyer

#25. His gaze swept her head to toe. "You're wearing my colors, love." He stalked forward and leaned down to brush her cheek with a kiss. "Soon you'll be wearing me," he whispered for her ears only.

Rebecca Zanetti

#26. There is no need for arms, physical violence, material constraints. Just a gaze. An inspecting gaze, a gaze that each individual under its weight will end by [internalising] to the point that they are their own overseer, each individual thus exercising surveillance over, and against themself.

Michel Foucault

#27. Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

Bret Easton Ellis

#28. I'm not such a fan of the concept of social media, though I don't have anything against it. I still love to call the people I want to be friends with.

Nina Hoss

#29. We're all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE

Ryan North

#30. Mathias lifted his head and looked directly into Mina's eyes. His smile was gone. Possession filled his gaze. After tonight, you won't be asking another man for anything.

Gayle Donnelly

#31. My voice repels death; my death; your death; my voice is my other. I write and you are not dead. The other is safe if I write.

Helene Cixous

#32. There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Joanna Russ