Steven Pinker Quotes

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

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

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology. Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.... Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.

Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.

I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take it, or you get raped or beat up? A man's world meant places men could go but not women. It meant they had more money,and didn't have kids, not the way women did, to look after every second. And it meant that women loved them more than they loved the women, that they could want something with all their hearts, and then not.

I don't think we are the same, women and men. We're different. But I don't think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world - ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Men are much more agressive with their advances.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

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

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to... show how hairy chested they are, compared with the man who's sitting next to them. I honestly think that there should never be too much testosterone in one room.

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.

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.