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• His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs.

  Colson Whitehead

  Sleep, Thinking, Female

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• Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Sex, Children

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• Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.

  Jenny Shipley

  Decision, Desire, Stewardship

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• I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Children, Boys, Process

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• In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Jesus, Hero, Son

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• As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, Boys, Quality

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• The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

  Charles Bukowski

  Betrayal, Damnation, Female

  "Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life". Book by Howard Sounes, 1998.

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• If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

  Gail Sheehy

  Men, Denial, Shame

  "Male Menopause: New Book Argues Midlife Transition Is Just As Hard On Men" By Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that.... Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture.'

  Cindy Sherman

  Artist, Want, Egotistical

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• You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

  Andrea Jung

  Home, Trying, Mascara

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• I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

  Rachel

  Thinking, Female, Get Over

  "Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock comedian Rachel Dratch on her new book and her new baby". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. May 11, 2012.

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• If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!

  Noel Ignatiev

  Cancer, White, World

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• I've always had mostly gay male friends.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Gay

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• I’ve known I was mostly gay ever since I can remember. I know it troubles many people for me to refer to myself as a lesbian considering I have a male partner. I think they gather that it trivializes the plight of the LGBTQIA community & although that couldn’t be further from the truth at this point in my life I’m trying to steer as far from labeling as possible. Compartmentalizing myself only leads to condemnation & contradiction. I’m happier being fluid and I’m happier being honest.

  Caitlin Stasey

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "Reign's Caitlin Stasey on Religion, Sexuality, and Reproductive Rights" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. January 12, 2015.

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• The feminine aspect has been crushed for millennia in most cultures. I believe the future lies in a balance of the male/female duality

  Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

  Lying, Believe, Balance

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• WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tyrants, Weakness, Energy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Uplifting, Team, Hero

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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• It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Real, Sacrifice

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• The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Country, War, Reading

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• That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

  Richard Schickel

  Commitment, Glowing, Common

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• I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they're trying to do. The fact that they are so often free of the people-pleasing instincts I have considered to be a curse of my female existence.

  Lena Dunham

  Jealous, Men, People

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.135, Random House

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• The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

  Teresa de Lauretis

  Hero, Glowing, Differences

  Teresa De Lauretis (1984). “Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema”, p.119, Indiana University Press

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• Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and men are born with indistinguishable minds is not. Freedom of choice is important, but ensuring that women make up exactly 50 percent of all professions is not. And eliminating sexual assaults is important, but advancing the theory that rapists are doing their part in a vast male conspiracy is not.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Men, Choices

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• I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

  Debra Messing

  Friendship, New York, Gay

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• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

  Marguerite Young

  Women, Writing, Names

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