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“Take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matter how you kiss 'em, as far as I'm concern frogs is what they stay.”

Book:The Color Purple

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The Color Purple

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker is a renowned American author born on February 9, 1944. Her works are known for their profound social criticism and feminist ideas, with notable titles including 'The Color Purple' and 'Beloved'. more

“They say things and look, sometimes when they mean to and sometimes when they don't, men who think of themselves as red-blooded and all-american and good-guy. They go so fast from I would never to So what if I did? They do it and then they tell themselves that they didn't, or that if they did, it's fine.”

Men Sexism Harrasment

Book:The Only Girl in Town

Source: The Only Girl in Town

“CHANT FOR DARK HOURS Some men, some men Cannot pass a Book shop. (Lady, make your mind up, and wait your life away.) Some men, some men Cannot pass a Crap game. (He said he’d come at moonrise, and here’s another day!) Some men, some men Cannot pass a Bar-room. (Wait about, and hang about, and that’s the way it goes.) Some men, some men Cannot pass a Woman. (Heaven never send me another one of those!) Some men, some men Cannot pass a Golf course. (Read a book, and sew a seam, and slumber if you can.) Some men, some men Cannot pass a Haberdasher’s. (All your life you wait around for some damn man!)”

Men

Book:Enough Rope

Source: Enough Rope

“Men aren't always graceful you know? Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Sometimes, there's such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward. Good men are often more practical than pretty.”

Men

Book:Between Shades of Gray

Source: Between Shades of Gray

“To be a rose in the garden. The man with jagged edges who scrapes your essence as he walks among you. A muse who caresses like lightning, a beautiful devil in disguise.”

Men Love Beautiful Garden Rose Man Thorns

Author:Dominic Riccitello

“The atavistic master whose mistress one is, to wait on his pleasure. This sort always considers every pretty woman "shallow", a sort of peacock with arrested development.”

Men Patriarchy

Book:The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

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