Timothy D. Snyder Quotes

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison.

Do I let a group of power-mongering men with short penises tell me what to do?

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

Men have to stay strong. 'They fight, it's normal. Females don't have that instinct.

I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.

Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.