Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

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

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

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they try to question traditional notions of masculinity and the sort of toxic nature of traditional ways of presenting masculinity.

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.

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

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

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?

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.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

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

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

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

Men need to live and breathe women.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.

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

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

Men are irrelevant.

Men are actually the weaker sex.

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