Rodney Crowell Quotes

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

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.

I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

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.

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

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.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that.

He considers me just a uterus with legs.

some fraternities are guilty of encouraging and rewarding sexual conquest that condones or normalizes sexual assault.

I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the supposed image of Jack Nicholson and all those guys who were womanizers.

How sad is that life when a man thinks that his manliness comes with asking sexual favours from a woman. That's the saddest way of being a man.

The way I feel seen by the opposite sex is sometimes really detrimental to me. I'm very aware of how I'm constantly being sexualized and objectified in their eyes which makes me feel worthless.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.