Maureen Murphy Quotes

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

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

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

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

The real victims of men are other men.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

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.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

I don’t have any respect to men who send women out to do their fighting for them.

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.

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.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Men are much more agressive with their advances.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

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

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.

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.