"I understand why my male followers like me."
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"Power is neither male nor female."
"Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts."
"Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society."
"You don't have to apologize for being feminine in a male space."
"When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male which excels the female."
"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."
"So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind."
"Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind."
"Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man."
"As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that is like. You have to be strong and take care of yourself."
"When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry."
"The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet."
"Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird."
"The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps."
"A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published"
"There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger."
"I'm more of an oldies guy. I'll say this - Michael Jackson, best entertainer of all time. Luther Vandross, best male singer of all time. Whitney Houston, best female singer of all time...and when Teddy Pendergrass says turn off the lights, turn 'em off. That's what I got for you."
"I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary.""
"The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding."