Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

American men are like women.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

I don't think I could keep my position as a well-standing man in the world if I thought there were roles for men and women.

The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.'

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

Women usually don't want to work as hard as a man.

One of the gross misconceptions about feminism is that it's only about women. But in order for women to live freely, men have to live freely, too. Feminism has shown us that what we think of as feminine is actually defined by cultural messages and political agendas. The same holds true for men and for what constitutes masculinity. Being a feminist opens your eyes to the ways men, like women, are imprisoned in cultural stereotypes.

Stop trying to be men. Let's be women. And let's let men be men. Let's empower them to be men, because I fell like they're falling away.

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.

What we're doing is we're chipping away at what it is to be a woman and to be feminine. And what it is to be a man and be masculine. We're chipping away at that. I wish we could go back to 'Mad Men' days. I love those days. Men were men. And I love them.