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Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication -- Deborah Tannen
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it. -- Pierre Bourdieu
Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence. -- Frederick Lenz
Male silence is not the same as listening -- Gloria Steinem
Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal. -- Frans de Waal
Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.] -- Plautus
Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them. -- Grantly Dick-Read
You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs. -- Jay Leno
Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights. -- Warren Farrell
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.] -- Ovid
Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart. -- Scott Hamilton
Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position. -- Frans de Waal
Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice. -- Sheila Jeffreys
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity. -- Shulamith Firestone
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. -- Andrea Dworkin
Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them. -- Mary Jo Weaver
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation. -- Michael Korda
Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air. -- Will Cuppy
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. -- Gloria Allred
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback. -- Kate Fox
She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male. -- Jerry Reed
Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die. -- Robert Bly
May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late. -- George Washington
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? -- bell hooks
The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. -- Kenny Loggins
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids. -- Candace Parker
Male groupies gettin' shaky when I come from the rear. -- Redman
Perv." He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point? -- Rachel Caine
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out. -- Clare Boothe Luce
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. -- Huey Newton
God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make. -- Margaret Fell
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.' -- David Morrell
To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music. -- Melvyn Bragg
Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions. -- Brad Sherman
Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on. -- Camille Paglia
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode. -- Deepak Chopra
The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them. -- Matthew McConaughey
I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters. -- Camille Paglia
All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths. -- John Gerzema
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?' -- Allison Pearson
Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution. -- Dee Dee Myers
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. -- Margaret Fuller
I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean. -- Kurt Cobain
Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is. -- Jeff Buckley
I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly. -- Vivienne Westwood
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity. -- Andrew Cohen
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility. -- Bret Easton Ellis
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception. -- Stacy Schiff
I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I'm able to compete in? -- Mindy Kaling
Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership that is calm, assertive, sure of themselves. And quite honestly, I don't think that some of these young Marines care if it's a male or a female. They just want to be properly led. -- Loretta Reynolds
The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. -- Emma Goldman
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle. -- Naomi Wolf
I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and orange dungarees. That, combined with a perfectly round pudding-bowl haircut, made me look, on a good day, like a cross between Ann Widdecombe, one of the Flower Pot Men, and a monk. -- Miranda Hart
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood. -- Kevin Powers
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. -- Andrea Dworkin
We are born male. We must learn to be men. -- Kent Nerburn
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities. -- Wilfrid Sheed
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. -- Cyril Connolly
I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it. -- Stella McCartney
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. -- Andrea Dworkin
When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement. -- Henry Rollins
Stubborn, snarly male. -- Anne Bishop
Objectivity is just male subjectivity. -- Jonathan Coe
I'm fascinated by male vulnerability. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
He's a male chauvinistic piglet. -- Betty Friedan
Everyone is into male grooming. -- Kevin Pietersen
Power is neither male nor female. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Power is neither male or female. -- Michael Crichton
The venture community is largely male. -- Sandra Lerner
I have a lot of male friends. -- Joan Collins
Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance. -- Rita Mae Brown
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I had both male and female heroes. -- Sally Ride
The male quality is the creative gift. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
There are male as well as female gossips. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Our pure awareness is not male or female. -- Tenzin Palmo
We have to have positive male role models. -- Donald Miller
What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed? -- Jude Deveraux
I have no prejudice against male or female. -- John Lone
I understand why my male followers like me. -- Kate Upton
Of course, the male-directed films make more money. -- Catherine Hardwicke
I am still fully committed to male-female equality. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Thank God for the white male power structure. -- Daniel von Bargen
Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. -- Alexei Navalny
I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships. -- Irvine Welsh
I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise? -- Joe Bob Briggs
I think every red-blooded male enjoys brandishing a firearm. -- Scott Adkins
The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male. -- Richard Dawkins
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy. -- Nancy Friday
The alpha male is always willing to walk away. -- Roosh V
The white male is the Jew of liberal fascism. -- Jonah Goldberg
Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. -- Michael Reagan
Theres nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity. -- Rafe Spall
I don't think there's any such thing as male objectification -- Joe Manganiello
Who is the pinnacle of male-ness in America? Leonardo DiCaprio. -- Henry Zebrowski
That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment. -- Richard Schickel
The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence. -- Hans Asperger
The gaming industry has been male-dominated ever since its inception. -- Anita Sarkeesian
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts. -- Michelangelo
People are uncomfortable with sexuality that's not for male consumption. -- Erykah Badu
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion. -- Ed Stoppard
I think male actors get confused by their own vanity. -- Shirley MacLaine
The guy is the greatest male athletes of all time. -- Serena Williams
I believe that I am male and I am female. -- Joni Mitchell
I believe that I am male and I am female, -- Joni Mitchell
Most of my friends are male. Men are more fun. -- Kylie Bax
The healthiest relationships have room for both male and female strengths. -- Shawn T. Smith
I can beat anyone, either male, female, animal, vegitable, or mineral. -- Jim Cornette
I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters. -- Geena Davis
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts. -- Warren Farrell
There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges. -- Maggie Smith
How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species -- D. H. Lawrence

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