“The air smelled like testosterone and manflesh again. (That was a thing, right?)”
Source: The One You Want
“My momma says we don’t need a man to do our chores for us, ’cause we are smart and capable and I believe her even though Sara’s mom says men were born to be our slaves, we just have to know how to manage them.”
Source: The One You Want
“He was here! And he was performing live and in-person girl porn—household tasks!”
Source: The One You Want
“Oh, sweet! New man meat’s made it to town, y’all. Let’s gobble.”
Source: The One You Want
“Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.”
Source: Necessary Errors
“When a man of sense comes to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, and not an artist. It is not merely a creature who can paint, and play, and sing, and draw, and dress, and dance; it is a being who can comfort and counsel him; one who can reason and reflect, and feel, and judge, and discourse, and discriminate; one who can assist him in his affairs, lighten his cares, sooth his sorrows, strengthen his principles, and educate his children.” – Hannah More”
Source: Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
“There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Surely the greatest tragedy for men in regard to the feminine principle is that their fear alienates them from their own anima, the principle of relatedness, feeling and connection to the life force. This alienation from self obliges alienation from other men as well. Often their only connection with each other comes through superficial talk about outer events, such as sports and politics.”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“Men today cannot claim their identity via culture because they are obliged to find other uninitiated males as their models or succumb to the empty values of a materialistic society. Again, before healing may begin, men must acknowledge the reality of what lies within. Among those confusing emotions is a deep grief for the loss of the personal father as companion, model and support, and a deep hunger for the fathers as a source of wisdom, solace and inspiration.”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, events of the same day. And if a thing is not in God’s mind, then what chance of it remaining in those of mortal men?”
Source: The Buried Giant