Ernest Gaines Quotes

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.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.

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

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

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

Men want to make women happy.

I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

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.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

We can't have a world without violence, because the world is half male.

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

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

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.

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

It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved.

There's nothing like being hugged or held or just anything as simple as that.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.