David Mamet Quotes

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

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

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

The real victims of men are other men.

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

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.

Men are actually the weaker sex.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

Clearly, Black men need to employ a feminist analysis that will address the issue of how to construct a life sustaining Black masculinity that does not have its roots in patriarchal phallocentrism.

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

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

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

'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.

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.