Anita Loos Quotes

I've about decided if it wasn't for the sex, I could be gay. Hell, then you're just hangin' out with your buddies.

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.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

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.

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

Guys want to be reassured, too - even the manliest of men.

It is a certain type of guy who's OK with having a girlfriend who is better at football than him. It is actually problematic. Some guys really can't cope with it.

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

I think you can't have this discussion and you can't have a discussion about feminism and the consciousness of the world without having a discussion about what has happened to men lately. They're holding the other side of the bag.

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy

It felt so good just to be held

With Woods arms wrapped around me and the beat of his heart pressed against my chest, I knew he would hold me steady. If I ever fell, I’d have him to catch me.

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'

Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs.