Quotes About Maleness

#1. The male chromosome is an incomplete female chromosome. In other words the male is a walking abortion; aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

Valerie Solanas

#2. You could be thoroughly an intellectual while not surrendering maleness; you could not be so totally intellectual and not surrender some degree of femaleness.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. Okay there is entirely too much naked maleness in here. Can you guys please put on clothes?"
"I hope you say that about every half naked guy.

Alyssa Rose Ivy

#4. The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

Bell Hooks

#5. [Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#6. I was still much too aware of him. His scent tickled my nose, clean and fresh with a mouthwatering maleness. I inhaled deep. The sound of his heart beating drove me wild. It thumped in my mind like a sensual music. He came across as utterly delicious.

Eve Langlais

#7. He called to her primal side; the ancient aspect of her animal self that wanted to submit. It wanted to submit to him; to sacrifice all of who she was at the altar of his maleness and lay herself bare for his taking.

Dianna Hardy

#8. Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

Margaret Mead

#9. Cry about what, Mr. Raymond?" Dill's maleness was beginning to assert itself. "Cry about the simple hell people give other people - without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too." "Atticus

Harper Lee

#10. Perhaps we as a culture have so emphasized the sexual dimension of maleness and femaleness that we have lost sight of the power of friendship

Andrew Comiskey

#11. This man's fierceness is addictive, his tenderness sweet and his body beyond perfection. He's the perfect mix of maleness. I'm in some serious deep, deep shit.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#12. a towering mass of lust-provoking maleness.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#13. When I applied for a handicap parking pass, they wouldn't take maleness as a medical condition.

Katie Graykowski

#14. Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.

Ellen Willis

#15. Women's potential to disrupt patriarchy and make men vulnerable is why it's so easy for women to make men feel foolish or emasculated through the mildest humor that focuses on maleness and hints at women's power to stop going along with the status quo.

Allan G. Johnson

#16. Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Deborah Tannen

#17. He towered over her, as intense and savage as only he could be, making her feel small and delicate in comparison, surrounded by his utter maleness. She felt trapped and she wanted to stay in his cage forever.

Cristiane Serruya

#18. Failure to examine the victimization of men keeps us from understanding maleness, from uncovering the space of connection that might lead more men to seek feminist transformation.

Bell Hooks

#19. Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Andrew Cohen

#20. How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

D.H. Lawrence

#21. His maleness bores me. Nothing is so boring as the phallus, so inherently stupid and stupidly conceited.

D.H. Lawrence

#22. In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness ... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.

Sonia Johnson

#23. Congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#24. How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Kingsley Amis

#25. First and foremost, prayer is so helpful. But I think that you need to face your fears head on. Don't avoid them or say that you're not scared. Acknowledge it and be honest about it. It's normal to get nervous about a big game or to get nervous about an important event in your life.

Matt Cullen

#26. In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

Rodney Brooks

#27. There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

Norah Vincent

#28. TMT, too much testosterone. Way more dangerous than TNT.

Robert L. Slater

#29. Never let anyone convince you of anything negative about yourself unless it is for your own betterment.

Bryant McGill

#30. Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within.

Steve Jones

#31. Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

Ray Kurzweil

#32. They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it.

Sue Johanson

#33. Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?

Jean-Luc Godard

#34. Whether you think something is possible or impossible, you'll most certainly be right. Because your belief determines your behavior.

Robin S. Sharma

#35. It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet.

Tiffany Madison

#36. Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn't just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.

Helen Clark

#37. Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

George Bernard Shaw

#38. How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

Aldous Huxley

#39. For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.

Daniel Boulud

#40. Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.

Jacques Yonnet

#41. The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

Terry Pratchett

#42. It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon.

Michael Ritchie

#43. There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it.

Glen Duncan