Hanna Rosin Quotes

Men like to provide for women and their families. It's in their DNA. I'm obviously no scientist, but I bet if you could hear a Y-chromosome talk, it would say, 'I want to provide and hunt.' When the woman is the primary breadwinner, it's going against nature. I'm not saying that it's bad or wrong, I'm just saying that it can feel off.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

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

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

Are you woman enough to be my man?

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

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

I do believe that men can be emasculated by successful women. I don't think I'm emasculating. But I have seen the dynamic with men who either don't make money or make less money. It's just not good for them.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

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.

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.

In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

Most of my friends are male. Men are more fun.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

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

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 terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

The real victims of men are other men.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.