Mindy Kaling Quotes

Men need to live and breathe women.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

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

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.

We were raised to pursue women... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers.

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

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.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.

American men are like women.

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

I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

I'm not a bro.

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.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.