Chinua Achebe Quotes

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

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

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

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.

Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

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.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

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.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.