Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

I do feel like I'm a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.

I'm not really a relationship expert but... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.

An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the line between what's perceived as assertiveness or aggressiveness almost certainly shifts with an interrupter's gender.

I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. People don't think like that where I come from... No one has ever said, 'Oh, he's a good-looking bloke.' They just didn't use those words about men.

Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?

My mother says ladies perspire and men sweat. Clearly, I am more of a man.

Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.

People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker, no words are ever going to be off limits in something I write. As long as people use the words, I'm going to report that.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They're pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare.

For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is thinking. A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.

Women, tend to talk more than men, and they do this thing where they say things that can easily be shown. Like, they don't need to do that.