Kate Atkinson Quotes

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about 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.

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.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I think men are a beautiful creation.

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

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

The real victims of men are other men.

Most men are fragile.