Barbara de Angelis Quotes

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

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.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

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 hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

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.

No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.

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

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

Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions that are tied to this reality differently, which is to say, men are not to express the emotions that are tied to it.

The real victims of men are other men.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Men can't bear to see women cry.

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

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

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

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

Men need to live and breathe women.

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.