C. S. Lewis Quotes

This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a tracking device. He comes in: "Hey, Roseanne! Roseanne! Do we have any Cheetos left?" Like he can't go over and lift up the sofa cushion himself.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

You can no longer define your manhood by whether you're on a nine-to-five job or you're making more money than your wife.

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

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