“You've survived what most of the people couldn't and still you think you can't live without him? Recognise your strength.”
“Men are not raised to be intimate, they're raised to be competitive performers...”
Source: How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
“Me pregunté si no habría personas destinadas a encontrarse fuera cuáles fueran las decisiones que tomasen, si esa leyenda que hablaba de un hilo rojo que conecta a dos almas gemelas no sería verdad.”
Source: Dime que te casarás conmigo
“Traditional socialization teaches young boys to filter their sense of self-worth through performance.”
Source: How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
“The paradox for boys is that in order to be worthy of connection they must prove themselves invulnerable, button down warriors in the world's emotional market place.”
Source: How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
“In the world of boys and men you're either a winner or a loser, one up or one down in control or controlled, man enough or a girl.”
Source: How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
“Where in this set up is the capacity for love?”
Source: How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
“A few days before finals, I sat for an hour with my friend Josh in an empty classroom. He was reviewing his applications for law school. I was choosing my courses for the next semester.
"If you were a woman," I asked, "would you still study law?"
Josh didn't look up. "If I were a woman," he said, "I wouldn't *want* to study it."
"But you've talked about nothing except law school for as long as I've known you," I said. "It's your dream, isn't it?"
"It is," he admitted. "But it wouldn't be if I were a woman. Women are made differently. They don't have this ambition. Their ambition is for children." He smiled at me as if knew what he was talking about. And I did. I smile, and for a few seconds we were in agreement.
Then: "But what if you were a woman, and somehow you felt exactly as you do now?"
Josh's eyes fixed on the wall for a moment. He was really thinking about it. Then he said, "I'd know something was wrong with me.”
Source: Educated
“If there are real men, I haven't met them yet.”
Source: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
“I wore tight, dark clothes, and a smile that I’d practised. Despite the showers and the CK One, I stank of somebody who might need saving, and men liked that best of all.”
Source: Girl A