Men Quote by Claire Messud

When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc.

— Petra Collins

As children, women are encouraged to be "little ladies." Little ladies don't scream as vociferously as little boys, and they are chastised more severely…

— Robin Lakoff

The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave…

— D. H. Lawrence

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

— Joseph Addison

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

— Penelope Gilliatt

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

— Seneca the Younger

“A woman can never be angry; she can only be neurotic, hysterical, frustrated.”

— Shashi Deshpande

My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable"…

— Koren Zailckas

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

— Blaise Pascal

We're not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness…

— Marjorie Liu

Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'My goodness, if I let the…

— Claire Messud

“Sexists refer to every female political opinion as "hysterical," just like they refer to every word a woman says when she opens her mouth…

— Sady Doyle