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.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a read more
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force read more
Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any read more
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to read more
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
