Albert Camus Quotes

For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

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

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

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

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

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.

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

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.