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“I find pieces of her In songs, book quotes, Even in the dismal corners Of macabre streets Hosting nobody except Failed men and women”

Book:Diary in Poems

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Diary in Poems

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“I don’t hate men because they’re men, as nuns do. I dislike them because they’re not men enough: babies, and playboys, and poor things showing off all the time, even to themselves. I don’t say I’m any better. I only wish, with all my soul, that some men were bigger and stronger and deeper than I am...”

Men Love Relationships St Mawr

Book:St. Mawr

Source: St. Mawr

“Do you think he would have wanted you to commit suttee?” “What is that?” “A Hindu practice in which a widow is expected to throw herself on her husband’s burning funeral pyre. Her suicide is considered as proof of her devotion to him.” “What if the wife dies first? Does the husband do the same thing?” Shaw threw her a mildly taunting grin. “No, he re-marries.” “I should have known,” Livia said. “Men always manage to arrange things for their own benefit.”

Men Devotion Benefit Arrange Suttee

Book:Again the Magic

Source: Again the Magic

“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 Losers

Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Misogyny was born of fear of women. It spawned the ideology of male superiority. But this was ideology, not statement of fact; as such, it could not be confirmed, but was open to constant doubt. Male status was not immutable. Myths of matriarchies and Amazons societies showed female dominance. Three of the eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes show women in successful opposition to men. ... These were the nightmares of victors: that someday the vanquished would arise and treat their ex-masters as they themselves had been treated.”

Men Women Feminism Gender Gender Roles Ancient Greece Women S Studies

Author:Sarah B. Ponderous

“So I think it is a reptile, though it may be architecture.”

Men Love Relationships

Book:The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve

“On Humor – When a woman says a man has a sense of humor, she means that he has a way of lightening her mood and brightening her spirits. When a man says a woman has a sense of humor, he means that she laughs at his jokes.”

Men Humor Women Laughter Jokes Mood Spirits Tastes

Author:Marsha Hinds

“And, most of all, these women remembered what their mothers and grandmothers had learned from the Romans, the Byzantines, the Turks, and the Mongols: that history almost always repeats itself. And it is almost always written by men.”

Men History

Book:See How They Run

Source: See How They Run

“Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible.”

Men Feminism Maleness

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“He wasn't exactly a bum, he was just a weak man who whined all the time. But he played the guitar.”

Men Artists

Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Men such as him do not have to clean up the messes they make, but we have to clean up our own messes, and theirs into the bargain.”

Men Women Women And Men

Book:Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

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