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Quotes About Fear

A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid of their power, or want to suppress them.
~ Frederick Lenz
Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.
~ Frederick Lenz
Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.
~ Vir Das
As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.
~ Mitch Glazer
See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.
~ Frederick Lenz
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.
~ Frederick Lenz
I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.
~ Diana Trilling
Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys.
~ Dov Davidoff
I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
~ Erica Jong
My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.
~ Fay Weldon
Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.
~ Frances Lear
Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.
~ Fred Thompson
Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.
~ Harriet Rubin
Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.
~ Henry Rollins
Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.
~ James Fox
I don't know how women will feel safe.
~ Jennifer Pozner
I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.
~ Jerry O'Connell
I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.
~ Jessica Valenti
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
~ John Irving
I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.
~ Jose Bergamin
Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.
~ Joss Whedon
I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.
~ Kevin Hart
Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.
~ Laura Schlessinger
If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.
~ Laura Schlessinger