Rupert Everett Quotes

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

I've always dressed like a dude.

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up.

Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

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

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

Even in early adulthood, men can't be told what to wear; they can only be subtly moved by example, encouragement, and a generally sophisticated atmosphere.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

For a heterosexual man - I know that's a hotly debated topic, but only among those who don't know me - I have grown to really appreciate fashion.

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

American men are like women.

I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what's comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it's kind of comedic.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

A man must know how to act in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

When we get married or interviewed for a job or play professional sports or run for president of the United States, we encounter a whole set of standards and expectations. We can be shamed for an outfit that's too slutty, too dowdy, too pricey--take your pick. That's the burden women carry into the fitting room.