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67b7021 If we let the men talk about them and decide them, then suddenly we wake up and find out that the men have made all the decisions, and these decisions all suit men. men Alexander McCall Smith
7b5b71e Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive. men kindness love pride Lauren Willig
610b5ea Tom began screaming, and I wondered if the baby's soft brain was, in this moment, changing shape in response to the violent stimuli. I tried to intellectualize the noise to protect the baby's psyche. I whispered: Isn't that interesting to hear a man scream? Doesn't that challenge our stereotypes of what men can do? And then I tried, Shhhhhhhhh. men melancholy Miranda July
ee30c10 There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed.... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed. integrity men feminism feminist good-men feminist-quotes maleness integrity-quotes male patriarchy masculinity manhood bell hooks
1cfef69 For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ... men humor Elizabeth Peters
d5fce86 The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places. time men nature world people human change prosperity beasts creatures humankind animals take wild growth destroy Robin Hobb
f16efe7 The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish. men gods George R.R. Martin
49eeaa4 "I have never been able to understand how men can feel affection for individuals who are intent on massacring them in a variety of unpleasant ways, but it is an undeniable fact that they can and do. Witness the immortal verse of Mr. Kipling: "So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'home in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man!" One can only accept this as another example of the peculiar emotional aberrations of the male sex." men humor aggressiveness inexplicable-ways warlike machismo power Elizabeth Peters
06c7bfc "I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight, it's about time you showed up around here.' I wanted to detach him from her, but first I had to sit through about ten minutes of her. She was my sister, but you don't tell women things like I wanted to tell him. I don't know why, but you don't. You tell them the things you have under control; the things that you're frightened of, you tell other men if you tell anyone. ("Nightmare")" men women fear men-and-women Cornell Woolrich
c93e532 Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man. Which is not saying a great deal. men relationships-life married-life men-and-women Elizabeth Peters
95f0da7 It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch. men clever dark love embarrass impatient late ordinary embarrassment mediocrity mother mystery mysterious father impatience Daphne du Maurier
2fe3042 Testosterone has far less to do with aggression than most assume. Within the normal range, individual differences in testosterone levels don't predict who will be aggressive. Moreover, the more an organism has been aggressive, the less testosterone is needed for further aggression. When testosterone does play a role, it's facilitatory--testosterone does not 'invent' aggression. It makes us more sensitive to triggers of aggression. Also, rising testosterone levels foster aggression only during challenges to status. Finally, crucially, the rise in testosterone during a status challenge does not necessarily increase aggression; it increases whatever is needed to maintain status. In a world in which status is awarded for the best of our behaviors, testosterone would be the most prosocial hormone in existence. men hormones testosterone gender Robert M. Sapolsky
a75f118 Guys are always confused by how soft and sentimental they are. men Sarah Miller
75dc9b0 I like men very much, but sometimes ... they're so stupid, so stuffed with theories .... They go in straight lines only, and won't stop. It's dangerous to do that. It's dangerous to leave everything up to the men, you know. That's one reason why I'd like to go home, at least for a visit. To see what Elia with his theories, and my dear young Lev with his ideals, are up to. I get worried they'll go too fast and too straight and get us into a place we can't get out of, a trap. You see it seems to me that where men are weak and dangerous is in their vanity. A woman has a center, is a center. But a man isn't, he's a reaching out. So he reaches out and grabs things and piles them up around him and says, I'm this, I'm that, this is me, that's me, I'll prove that I am me! And he can wreck a lot of things, trying to prove it. men women straight-lines Ursula K. Le Guin
65fc0e5 What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It's such a bother that it must be masculine. men new-languages Libba Bray
6bb40cd She had one of those husky voices that sounded as if she were permanently coming down with a cold. Men seemed to find that sexy in a woman, which Jackson thought was odd because it made women sound less like women and more like men. Maybe it was a gay thing. men women humor husky-voice sexy Kate Atkinson
561677a He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other. men love psycho dagger mom sweet dangerous Eoin Colfer
f6b7f17 He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy. sex men women gender-relationships men-and-women gender morals Graham Greene
33b0085 "Another black woman, Margaret Wright, said she was not fighting for equality with men if it meant equality in the world of killing, the world of competition. "I don't want to compete on no damned exploitative level. I don't want to exploit nobody. . . . I want the right to be black and me. . . ." men women-s-rights Howard Zinn
0cf738c Any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day, with no time off and no pay except room and board. (p9) men Elizabeth Peters
561c74c In the street below, a posh-looking drunk man is reading the card of a prostitute, Blue-Tacked up by a doorbell. He's examining it with all the forensic care I presume he puts into reading a wine list. 'What are you looking for?' I ask him, in my head. 'What woman will go best with your main course of terrible, horny loneliness?' I speculate, briefly, on how different the world would be if it were run by women. In that world, if you were a lonely, horny woman - as I am. As I always am - you'd see Blu-tacked postcards by Soho doorways that read, 'Nice man in cardigan, 24, will talk to you about The Smiths whilst making you cheese-on-toast + come to parties with you. Apply within. men women protitutes Caitlin Moran
a309045 ...You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork. men confusing deaf guys jek refuse soup dumb boys Robin Hobb
d42d701 When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth -- that men are only equal -- can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth. men sexism Marilyn French
46b0e43 It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...] I've often seen blushing young men with shining eyes behave in the same way, but no one says of them that they want to be raped. If, after taking a few steps forward, they then decide to retreat, no one accuses them of being cunt teasers. In fact, the disappointed woman probably thinks it's all her fault. rape men rape-culture inequality Marilyn French
edb9f5b ...this was why men fell in love with strippers and escorts: it wasn't the licentiousness, the dissembling, their craven willingness to do whatever you wanted. It was the way they would, out of the blue, surprise you with the psychic ability to know what you needed. men strippers Chris Bohjalian
a30ee03 Willie tried to enlist in the army and was turned down; whereupon he threw his job, came home, announced that he was a failure, and went to bed. (...) He said he was going to stay in bed and never get up as long as he lived. men Betty Smith
4951561 ...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork. men feminism mansplaining Rebecca Solnit
93a9893 Es gibt zwei Sorten von Mannern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiss nicht, welche Sorte mir verdachtiger ist. understanding prejudice men women empathy mysogyny gender Sten Nadolny
31d6280 They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid. men Jeanette Winterson
13a3f50 It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely. mind men women concerned mens-mind strange-behaviour behaviour something strange Larry McMurtry
39721b5 Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women. men feminism women Richard Llewellyn
3f4216b "Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today." men Julia Quinn
c7c0705 Ia khochu vstretit' takogo muzhchinu, kotoryi, kogda uznaesh' ego poluchshe, budet takim zhe, kakim kazhetsia, kogda vy tol'ko poznakomilis'. Ia khochu vstretit' takogo muzhchinu, kotoryi zvonit, esli poobeshchal pozvonit' i prikhodit domoi, esli poobeshchal, chto pridet. Ia khochu vstretit' takogo muzhchinu, kotorogo ustraivaet to, kakoi on est'. Ia khochu vstretit' takogo muzhchinu, kotoryi khochet vstretit' takuiu zhenshchinu, kak ia. Ved' eto ne slishkom mnogo? Khotia, kak utverzhdaet moia podruga Marsel', eto vse ravno, chto khotet' lunu s neba i zvezdy vpridachu. men relationships Julian Barnes
f93a545 Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet. men magician shaman space explorer poet Michelle Tea
973bebe Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown. men religion Alice Walker
e90a1ca It shall be an offence for any man, either a husband or other person of the male sex, married or otherwise, being over the age of twelve years, to throw any item of clothing having been worn by the said person for whatever length of time, upon the floor of any bathroom or any room adjacent to and connected to a bathroom, without good cause. men laundry messiness boys Alexander McCall Smith
3a84723 "Very likely some Mrs Grundy will observe, "I don't believe it, boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles." I dare say you don't, Mrs. Grundy, but it's true nevertheless. Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings." men women good-wives Louisa May Alcott
af53452 She aint worth it. None of em are. He didnt answer for a while. Then he said: Yes they are. lovers men women Cormac McCarthy
f864a6b Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown? men god dying Victor Hugo
b579504 I would have seen flaws in this, later in my life. I would have felt the impatience, even suspicion, a woman can feel towards a man who lacks a motive. Who has only friendship to offer and offers that so easily and bountifully that even if it is rejected he can move along as buoyantly as ever. Here was no solitary fellow hoping to hook up with a girl. Even I could see that, inexperienced as I was. Just a person who took comfort in the moment and in a sort of reasonable facade of life. men relationships love Alice Munro
bf504e8 I step away as I notice a group of young, angry men walking toward us. I doubt that there is any particular reason for their anger. It is the anger that most men feel these days; they are angry about their impotence and their desires and their reality. It is an anger we all feel. But it is an anger only men can freely express. men Roxane Gay
77e6493 From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men. men women sexism Barbara Kingsolver
9bcbe68 I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. hatred men women gender Jeanette Winterson
0ff7d89 The school song at Accrington High School for Girls was 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,' a terrible choice for an all-girls' school, but one that helped turn me into a feminist. Where were the famous women--indeed any women--and why weren't we praising them? I vowed to myself that I would be famous and that I would come back and be praised. men feminism women praise recognition Jeanette Winterson
c407c5a This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men (as readers, critics, and editors) can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers. men feminism reading readers Roxane Gay
56d1abb God save us all from good-looking men. men James S.A. Corey
ee5599f The heart of a man is like deep water. men Douglas Coupland
5b629a3 "There will never again be men like them," said Carreen softly. "No one can take their places." war men loss Margaret Mitchell
7a9f519 Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare. men clothes Alexander McCall Smith
5ade18b 1. Men are easy to please but are not pleased for long before some new novelty must delight them. 2. Men are easy to make passionate but are unable to sustain it. 3. Men are always seeking soft women but find their lives in ruins without strong women. 4. Men must be occupied at all times otherwise they make mischief. 5. Men deem themselves weighty and women light. Therefore it is simple to tie a stone round their necks and drown them should they become too troublesome. 6. Men are best left in groups by themselves where they will entirely wear themselves out in drunkenness and competition. While this is taking place a woman may carry on with her own life unhindered. 7. Men are never never to be trusted with what is closest to your heart, and if it is they who are closest to your heart, do not tell them. 8. If a man asks you for money, do not give it to him. 9. If you ask a man for money and he does not give it to you, sell his richest possession and leave at once. 10. Your greatest strength is that every man believes he knows the sum and possibility of every woman. money men passion women trust gender-relations perception power rules Jeanette Winterson
75b1809 Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't. pornographers sex men temptation women purity Randy Alcorn
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b115a8f This was another skill women were meant to learn: when a man's story had come to an end. Mostly, it wasn't a problem, as the end was thumpingly obvious; or else the narrator started snorting with laughter in advance, which was always a pretty good clue. Martha had long ago decided only to laugh at things she found funny. It seemed a normal sort of rule; but most men found it rebuking. men women funny Julian Barnes
d562f1d He walked out and closed the door. Linda had the feeling that she was imprisoned, not with a lock and key, but by the imposed time limit. She decided to write down what she was going to say in a note-book, and pulled one across the table towards her. When she flipped it open she was confronted with a bad sketch of a seductively posed naked woman. To her surprise she saw it was Martinsson's notepad. But why should that surprise me? she thought. All the men I know spend an enormous amount of mental energy undressing women in their minds. men notebook magnus-martinsson Henning Mankell
41239ee "You should have seen him," she said. "A real ladies' man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers." men honesty Alexander McCall Smith
ac3ad4d By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good. men relationships women Angela Carter
e0944a5 "Gregori was the one who came up with the idea about human psychic women, and I'm certain he's right. You and your mother support his theory. He also thinks there's something in the Carpathian woman's chemistry that makes it nearly impossible for the female chromosome to beat out the male." "Wouldn't you know he'd think it was the woman," Shea sniffed contemptuously. "More than likely the men determine the sex, just like in humans, and they just can't produce girls." She grinned at Raven. "The men bring about their own destruction." Raven laughed. "Mikhail would never let me speak to you again if he could hear us. He thinks I'm too independent and disrespectful already." She shrugged carelessly. "It's probably true, but it's a lot of fun. I love the way he gets that pained look on his face. He's so cute." "Cute? I'll bet he likes that description." men raven-and-shea Christine Feehan
60ed8aa I very much like men. They're interesting to me, and I mostly wish they would be better about how they treat women so I wouldn't have to call them out so often. men Roxane Gay
2c87e83 ... I discovered from my time in the brother that men's members, if bitten off or otherwise severed, do not grow again. This seems a great mistake on the part of nature, since men are so careless with their members and will put them anywhere without thinking. men nature penises indiscretion Jeanette Winterson
d4b2433 How many times do I have to tell you, Amelia? Men are like little woodland creatures. You have to lure them to you with tiny breadcrumbs and soft words of encouragement. You cannot simply whip out a rock and conk them over the head with it. men love Meg Cabot
392975c We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means. opportunities men wealth George S. Clason
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