Victoria Wood Quotes

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

Men are irrelevant.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

Men are much more agressive with their advances.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

The real victims of men are other men.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.

Men need to live and breathe women.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.