Richard Dawkins Quotes

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

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

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

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.

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.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

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?

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

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

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

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

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

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.

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.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

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.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

Men are irrelevant.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.