"It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females."
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"I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal."
"That’s when she’d learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily."
"There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman.""
"Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female."
"The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion."
"I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that."
"I've always had mostly gay male friends."
"In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people."
"I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is here and now."
"Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males."
"Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state."
"All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this."