K. D. Lang Quotes

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

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.

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

For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.

Nothing scares a straight man more than a woman in her full glory.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

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

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

Men need to live and breathe women.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

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.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not 'naturally' in charge as men.

While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.

I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

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

Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it.