Philip K. Dick Quotes

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Men need to live and breathe women.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

We can’t blow up the world because of it.

A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.

The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult - this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.

When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already so fragile in men's minds, is that men dissociate from women and prove their manliness through aggression, we're encouraging a culture of violence and sexuality that's detrimental to both men and women.

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

We broke the world to make it whole.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something.

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

It is because of men that women dislike one another.