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Quotes About Men

The simple right to reproductive freedom - to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction - is basic to restoring women's power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.
~ Gloria Steinem
The irony here is that thanks to molecular archaeology—which includes the study of ancient DNA to trace human movement over time—we now know that men have been the stay-at-homes, and women have been the travelers. The rate of intercontinental migration for women is about eight times that for men.
~ Gloria Steinem
Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
~ Gloria Steinem
Men can be just as loving and nurturing as women-- it's a libel on men to say they can't-- but we all learn by example. Boys just need nurturing men in their lives so they know it's okay for them to be nurturing.
~ Gloria Steinem
Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule.
~ Gloria Steinem
There are rock-bottom subjects for men as well as women. If there is one that men want to talk about most, it's how much they missed having nurturing fathers, or any man in their lives who cared.
~ Gloria Steinem
The simple right to reproductive freedom—to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction—is basic to restoring women's power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.
~ Gloria Steinem
Mrs. Banks: [singing] Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.
~ Glynis Johns
Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
~ Goethe
Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.
~ Goethe
How little humane feeling after all was to be found in men's hearts; how much coarseness and cruelty was to be found even in the educated and those who were everywhere regarded as good and honorable men.
~ GOGOL
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
~ Golda Meir
I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men [sic] who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.
~ Golda Meir
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
...an Angel convoying me to the abodes of the blessed on high to converse with the Spirits of just Men made perfect...
~ John Adams, 1818
Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men...
~ John Milton
We scarcely thought in our own hall to hear This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment...
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
It may be that most men do not care how they look, so long as they do not look ridiculous, and their conception of looking ridiculous is that they should look different from anybody else... In regard to shaving, the view of the conventionalist is that it does not much matter whether we shave or grow beards provided we all shave or grow beards at the same time, and ninety-nine men out of a hundred are conventionalists.
~ Robert Lynd, "Beaver," 1922
And as passion is the foundation of courage, such warlike natures, whether of men or animals, will be full of passion.
~ Plato
All men are created equal, then a few become firemen.
~ Author Unknown
For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinions by a wager.
~ Lord Byron
If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when all grudges can he settled and the survivors may toss the non-survivors overboard and arrange a story as to how the missing men were lost at sea.
~ Jack London
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
~ Jack London
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel
~ Jack London