“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
“Sometimes a man isn’t good when he’s trying to be great.”
Source: Bodies: A Romantic Bloodbath
“I do not reward bad behavior.”
“Men, especially crude men, tend to keep their promises.”
Source: In Limbo
“You know, reading makes your penis look bigger - don't quote me on it, the science is really new.”
Source: Part of Your World