John Fowles Quotes

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison.

If there was no war, the young men felt that they were denied manhood.

There are two aspects around which the dynamics of Bollywood revolve - chivalry and chauvinism.

Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.

Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

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.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

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.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.

I can't rid myself of the feeling that war is a product of the male nature.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

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.

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

I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.

Brittle masculinity, in the right setting, becomes political atrocity. Strength brings problems; weakness brings others, but weakness posing as strength is the most dangerous of all.

Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.