Rachel Weisz Quotes

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.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

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.

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

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

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.

I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

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

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

I feel like all guys are the same.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

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

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

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

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.