Gabrielle Union Quotes

When you're a man you try and be macho.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

I feel like all guys are the same.

At the end of the day, I feel like it's a mistake to generalize that all men are the same.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions that are tied to this reality differently, which is to say, men are not to express the emotions that are tied to it.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

Boys have always known they could do anything; all they had to do was look around at their presidents, religious leaders, professional athletes, at the statues that stand erect in big cities and small. Girls have always known they were allowed to feel anything - except anger.

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.