Alicia Machado Quotes

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

When you're the only girl in a family of men, you have to be pretty sassy.

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

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.

Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't go into extremes. Some women can get very aggressive towards men, but we need men and love men, so keeping the right balance is the most important thing.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

Men need to live and breathe women.