Margaret Atwood Quote by Naomi Wolf

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they…

— Molly Ivins

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

— Margaret Atwood

“As Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the 'scope of their threatenability': 'Why do men feel…

— Shuli Barzilai

“At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.”

— Gavin de Becker

“What all men fear is indeed to be feared;”

— Lao Tzu

“Women fear that men will have their way and then slither away. Men fear that women will come back and boil their bunnies.”

— Maureen Dowd

“When some women felt fear, they covered it with an iron grate of courage, I thought. Men might be dangerous, but they were very…

— Kelsey Brickl

“Why do men feel threatened by women?' I asked a male friend of mine. So this male friend of mine, who does by the…

— Margaret Atwood

“Men are the thing to be afraid of, always, men and nothing else.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance…

— Margaret Atwood

“Fear of women is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Nkosiyazi Shange

“It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky