Males Quotes · Page 23

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

— Frans de Waal

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

— Bette Davis

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

— Robert Bly

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was…

— Rik Mayall

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

— Armistead Maupin

There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.

— Sheila Johnson

When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

— Mark Shand

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're…

— Norman Jewison

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia,…

— Edward Abbey

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he…

— Betty Dodson

The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't…

— Arianna Huffington

[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will…

— Andrea Mitchell

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out…

— Maggie Smith

“What is this Christmas?” Wing asked. Orro turned from the stove. “It’s the rite of passage during which the young males of…

— Ilona Andrews

Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on…

— Roddy Piper

Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to…

— E. O. Wilson

Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what…

— Kevin Leman

Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide…

— Adrienne Rich

The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you’re already male to…

— Lorrie Moore

Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the…

— Frank Zindler

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the…

— Otto Weininger

Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it…

— Nora Ephron

I like naked women. I'm a bloke. I'm supposed to like them. We're born like that. We like naked women as soon…

— Steven Moffat

I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.

— Willem Dafoe

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

— Debra Wilson

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many…

— Lola Kirke

I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.

— Nate Parker

Lets face it all males r pervs but the gentlemen r the ones who can hide it the best

— Michael Country

I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys…

— Nate Parker

The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and…

— Jessica Valenti

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

— Robert James Waller

Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.

— Son House

The advertising media in this country continuously informs the American male of his need for indispensable signs of his virility.

— Frances M. Beal

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

— Jesse Jackson

Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.

— Alfred Kinsey

The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.

— Laozi

Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in…

— Camille Paglia

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It…

— Julie Murphy