I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.
The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating.
I've learnt I don't have to be a man and I don't have to be a woman, I can just be me.
I didn't want to be a man of words but of action.
One of the things I've been interested in my whole career is exploring masculinity and what it means to be a man. The sensitivity of a man, but also the violence and power that goes along with it.
It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.
I had a column for the 'Seattle Weekly' for five years, and there was one column that was called 'How To Be A Man,' and it was kind of tongue in cheek; it was really tongue in cheek. And I got a book deal from that column.
I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.
