gender anxiety Quotes

At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

Freud says, "Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling." Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.

Like any woman, I worry about my body.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.

Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn to be comfortable.