Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there’s so much pressure on you.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Study men, not historians.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

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

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.