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Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing read more
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be read more
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your read more
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
A small family is soon provided for.
A small family is soon provided for.
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it read more
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A read more
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.