John Darnielle Quotes

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

When I just decided to be myself, that's when you get questions like, 'How do you feel about feminism?' And I have no idea; this is just when I decide what I'm not tolerating and what I genuinely think and a little bit in between.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

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

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

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

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.

Men need to live and breathe women.

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what they've done good and what they've done bad and all these things in our lives.