Gay Talese Quotes

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes; that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.

I've been constantly under male gaze. In our movies, women are constantly objectified.

When Trump says no one loves women more than he does, what exactly is he referring to? Fantasizing about them on the 'Access Hollywood' bus? Placing them only in professional roles that answer to him?

Women's bodies have always been used as a spectacle and objectified.

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in my world now.' I was drawn to that as an idea less from my own experience than from listening to music written by men that was kind of male gaze-y.

The way I feel seen by the opposite sex is sometimes really detrimental to me. I'm very aware of how I'm constantly being sexualized and objectified in their eyes which makes me feel worthless.

All men want their whores to be unhappy.

Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved by the idea of men liking her. Because I think that there is a side to every man that really wants to watch a woman fall apart.

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.