“And then the bastard smiled at me. He smiled the same smile I’d seen a thousand times. A hundred thousand. It was the smile that said, 'I know best.’ The smile that said, ‘I’m better than you.’ The smile that said, 'I'm safe here and you're not.' The smile that said, 'I have a dick, so I win.’
Rage rolled up in me like the sea and I felt it sweep over my head, threatening to drown me. And then I heard a voice, small but still. A voice I hadn’t heard in forty years. I closed my eyes and listened. ‘It isn’t your anger that will make you good at this job, it is your joy.’ The rage ebbed and in its place, only happiness. Fierce, rampant happiness. It wasn’t the prettiest fight I’d ever been in but it was the most ferocious.”
Source: Killers of a Certain Age
“To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)”
Source: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
“She's not the type to swoon for pretty lies.”
Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
“Who was this stranger, and why had I chosen him, of all the men in this city, this country, the world, to be my saviour?”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“Only middle-aged women drink wine from glasses. Men either use cups or drink it straight from the bottle.”
Source: Lost Seeking Dreams
“Winner Men are always come from the Badass Group.”
“He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,” said Guillemette Andreu-Lanoë”
Source: Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
“The true measure of a man is how many impossible things he accomplishes before breakfast.”
“The greatest fear of the American male is that he will be homosexual. Beginning with the stern warnings he recieves as a young boy about overly friendly men in public parks, through the adolescent shaming prompted by the slightest hint of effeminacy, to the suspicion provoked by an interest in artistic pursuits, he is conditioned to believe that homosexuality is incompatible with manhood. From his family to his friends, in his church and at his workplace, from the realm of the everyday experience to the popular culture surrounding him, the message is unambigious that there is absolutely nothing worse in the world than to be a sissy, a faggot, a queer.”
Source: Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
“A man should never stand at an open door; you either go inside or you just stay outside.”
Source: Lost Seeking Dreams