Quotes About Men
I understood at those times what I was leaving behind: the solidarity of a shared biology. Women know what it means to have a body. They understand its difficulties and frailties, its glories and pleasures. Men think their bodies are theirs alone. They tend them in private, even in public.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
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Though the weather was cool, the beach at Herringsdorf was dotted with quite a few diehard nudists. Primarily men, they lay walrus-like on towels or boosterously congregated.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
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Luce put his hand on the small of my back. Men have an annoying way of doing that. They touch your back as though there's a handle there, and direct you where they want you to go. Or they place their hand on your head, paternally. Men and their hands.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
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Luce put his hand on the small of my back. Men have an annoying way of doing that. They touch your back as though there's a handle there, and direct you where they want you to go.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
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Ilyenek a férfiak. Úgy mutatják ki az érzelmeiket, hogy rád telepszenek, akár a koporsófedél. És még ezt hívják szerelemnek.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
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If you want to have a career, my advice is don't get married. You think things have changed and there's some kind of gender equality now, that men are different, but I've got news for you. They're not.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
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Shall I get right to it? No, slowly, leisurely, that's the way. Let me first mention that it is October here in Germany. Though the weather was cool, the beach at Herringsdorf was dotted with quite a few diehard nudists. Primarily men, they lay walrus-like on towels or boisterously congregated in the striped Strandkörbe, the little beach huts.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
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From her days as an advocate to her days as a justice, Ginsburg insisted that men and women would be truly equal only when they took equal responsibility for child rearing. She wrote as early as 1972 that "child rearing, as distinguished from child bearing, does not involve a physical characteristic unique to one sex
~ Jeffrey Rosen
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By the way, I said my affirmative action plan would be for men as teachers in kindergarten and grade schools. I think it would be wonderful for children, if they could see men in caring roles just as they see women.
~ Jeffrey Rosen
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Trust was the sexual clincher for Dolores Alexander, the once-married early NOW member from chapter 3. Once I had had sex with a woman, says Alexander it was mind-blowing, it was so much better than with men. [My sexuality] just never became a question, I just stayed there. The issue was trust. I felt I could trust women so much more than I could ever trust a man. You are dealing on a truly peer level with women and you are not with men - or at least I wasn't.
~ Jennifer Baumgardner
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How could they flee? How could they abandon Germany to evil men who were determined to destroy everything good about it?
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
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Not to make sweeping generalizations about men, but I can pretty well guess how this conversation would go down. Jack: Everything okay? You seem down in the mouth lately. Maxime: It is fine. Jack: Okay, just checking. See ya.
~ Jennifer Coburn
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Even the men were better groomed than I was. Kimmy's queer brigade wears purposefully sloppy hair and uses special shavers that leave rugged day-old stubble.
~ Jennifer Coburn
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I have a date this afternoon. Oh, Lord. Jake closed his eyes. Who are you going to destroy now? I beg your pardon? The hotel would appreciate it if you'd just throw back the men you don't like without maiming them. I haven't maimed anyone. You almost drowned Lance, you scared Peter into heart palpitations, you stabbed Donald with a fork, and you hit Brad over the head with a bottle. Jake shook his head. And they still ask you out.
~ Jennifer Crusie
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You're planning on being disappointed, you'd be disappointed if you weren't disappointed, your whole world view depends on men disappointing you. Well, that's just cowardly.
~ Jennifer Crusie
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Daisy knew about proportion from art class, but she knew about men from life.
~ Jennifer Crusie
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A DEPUTATION It consists of two men and three women. Superior people would call them Cranks. But Cranks have been of some service to the world, and the use of superior people is still to be discovered.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
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All plans between men are tentative. If one man should suddenly have an opportunity to pursue a woman, it's like these two guys never met each other in life. This is the male code.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
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On any given day in Spokane, Washington, there are more adult men per capita riding children's BMX bikes than in any other city in the world.
~ Jess Walter
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A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.
~ John F. Kennedy
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
~ John Maynard Keynes
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The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.
~ John Ruskin
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There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
~ John Ruskin
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I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.
~ Laurel Nakadate
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