Lisa Gardner Quotes

Guns turn you boys into pussies, sex change

Guns are the crutches of the impotent.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

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

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

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

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.

We can't have a world without violence, because the world is half male.

It takes only one person with a weapon to shatter a life, a family, a community.

What war is to men so maternity is to women.

When I was pregnant with my first child, I was 35 years old, and I was working in a pet shop.

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

I think pregnancy is a huge responsibility.

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

At about 33 weeks along in my pregnancy, the doctor suggested that I stay pretty close to home and not be touring and flying around. I was really left to face the kind of deep thinking that comes along with being a mother and bringing a child into the world.

A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.

Why don't you pass the gun around and give everyone a shot.

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.