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Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this read more
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old read more
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are read more
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where read more
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to read more
The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.
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.