Eric Stonestreet Quotes

The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.

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

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

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

American men are like women.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

But alas, I'd have to find a way to be opinionated without being too opinionated, authoritative without being a bitch about it, smart without being elitist, fair without being a pushover. If the boyfriends of my youth found me too authoritative when I should have been cheering on the sidelines as they kicked and tossed and smacked balls toward the vanguard, the male colleagues of my adulthood kept reminding me of my lack of authority as they unconsciously displayed theirs. I was always failing someone's standards of legitimacy, as a girlfriend, as a producer of opinions. It was an eternal no-win.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

I find when I'm perceived as male in society, there is an enormous amount of pressure, but it comes with respect, so it's a balance.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

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.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

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.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

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.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?