Junot Diaz Quotes

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

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

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I've always liked men better than women.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

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.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.

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

Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

Being a woman means that my male privilege seeped out of my body.