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A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Letter to N.A. Leikin (May 8, 1895)
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Rita Mae Brownborn 1944Sudden Death (1983)
- Comedy
Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977We Should All Be Feminists (2014)
A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977We Should All Be Feminists—April 12, 2013
Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
George Carlin1937–2008When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
- Comedy
- Women
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 2, p. 35
- Women
Well, the old theory was “marry an older man because they’re more mature”. But the new theory is “men don’t mature — marry a young one”.
Rita Rudnerborn 1953Best of the Improv, Vol. 3 (2003)
- Marriage
Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams1744–1818Letter to John Adams (31 March 1776), published in Familiar Letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams (1875) edited by Charles Francis Adams, p. 147
- Power
- Women
Man has his will,⁠—but woman has her way!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 2
- Women
Men who don’t like girls with brains don’t like girls.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & men
- Women
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing, too.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & men
- Women
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & men
- Age
- Women
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce Carol Oatesborn 1938On Boxing (1987)
- Sports
We teach boys to be afraid of fear. We teach boys to be afraid of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian speak, “hard man!”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977We Should All Be Feminists—April 12, 2013
- Fear
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.
Andrea Dworkin1946–2005Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979)
- Sex