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“Most men will not swim before they are able to.”

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“Again and again a man would tell me about early childhood feelings of emotional exuberance, of unrepressed joy, of feeling connected to life and to other people, and then a rupture happened, a disconnect, and that feeling of being loved, of being embraced, was gone. Somehow the test of manhood, men told me, was the willingness to accept this loss, to not speak it even in private grief. Sadly, tragically, these men in great numbers were remembering a primal moment of heartbreak and heartache: the moment that they were compelled to give up their right to feel, to love, in order to take their place as patriarchal men.”

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“He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.”

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“A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather your sterness has a power beyond beauty”

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Book:Jane Eyre

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“In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.”

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Book:Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand

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“...this was why men fell in love with strippers and escorts: it wasn't the licentiousness, the dissembling, their craven willingness to do whatever you wanted. It was the way they would, out of the blue, surprise you with the psychic ability to know what you needed.”

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Book:The Guest Room

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“There is a huge college about how men and women interact with each other after marriage. But people get married without learning.”

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“The closer you get to know someone, the more you see their true colors.”

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“We must dare to face the way in which patriarchal thinking blinds everyone so that we cannot see that the emotional lives of boys cannot be fully honored as long as notions of patriarchal masculinity prevail. We cannot teach boys that "real men" either do not feel or do not express feelings, then expect boys to feel comfortable getting in touch with their feelings.”

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“I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They don’t want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they do want to hurt. They want to scare me because fear is the only way they have learned to feel powerful.”

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Book:Juvenile Justice: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition (Contemporary World Issues

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“Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.”

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Book:The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

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