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Men Quotes
Serious duty and dry humor, side by side.
Quotes about "men" here range from serious to sharply funny — one set addresses military service and daily accountability, while another pushes back on the idea that women should shape themselves around what men expect. For related themes, see Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of women who direct in a way that is even more masculine sometimes than men - and that's not a bad thing, either.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are obviously issues in our industry. That starts at the top with studio execs who - not just men - don't believe a woman could handle a huge franchise or big action movie.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.
- Confining
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are all kinds of ways in which especially white men in this country have been helped by the government.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in a lot of the challenges men are facing with unemployment and the economy changing because of technology.
- Dark Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
- Idiots
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020