Junot Diaz Quotes

I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'

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

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack over someone in sensitive emo-boy clothing, because both are misogynists, only the one with the backpack is more honest about just how scared of women he is.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

I still get blokes who say, 'Oh you hate men, don't you?' And I say, 'No, I just hate you.' I really love doing that, just to see the look on their faces.

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women?

I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.