William T. Vollmann Quotes

It's no secret that I love women. I think everyone loves women. And I like having beautiful women around me.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Men are fantastic - as a concept.

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

Men see through different optics.

Don't get me wrong - I like to look at the ladies as much as the next guy. But what in the hell do they do they have to do with wrestling? Nothing.

I grew up watching films that presented male perspectives of women.

The word 'Playboy' alone doesn't exactly give most women a warm, fuzzy feeling, yet many of the Playboy photos end up in the most praised photo and art magazines and in critically acclaimed photo exhibitions.

Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.

I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.