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“Sly enough to capture a bird, cruel enough to keep it in a cage, too stupid to know he would be the death of it.”

Book:Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil

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“Still, she was crazy about these two flickering men and wanted to be just like them with someone, except alive and not mute, though perhaps they spoke ghost-language to each other, and she couldn't hear it. She also loved their best friend, an older female ghost who wore men's clothes and ran barefoot through the vineyards, her red hair spun with flowers and bil- lowing behind her like a red river of fresh blooms. "Hey guys," she called out to the floating men. "Do you know anything about angels?" But of course she got no answer. They were mid-kiss, midair, entwined and enraptured as always. Their eternity was only each other.”

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Book:When the World Tips Over

Source: When the World Tips Over

“But men are shortsighted. Especially when a heavy crown is blocking their eyes.”

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Book:The Teller of Small Fortunes

Source: The Teller of Small Fortunes

“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.”

Men Pants Lesbianism

Book:The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

“This close, she could smell liquor on his breath. It made her skin crawl with half-remembered dread. Alcohol and men like Johann never mixed well. It emboldened them.”

Men Alcohol

Book:A Dark and Drowning Tide

Source: A Dark and Drowning Tide

“When he was done, he got up. I pulled my dress down. And he said "if you want to go back down to your friends, that's alright.”

Men Love Abuse

Book:Daisy Jones & The Six

Source: Daisy Jones & The Six

“Just think how many world catastrophes we could have been spared if men could just keep their dicks in their pants.”

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Book:QualityLand

Source: QualityLand

“This is the us you wanted us to be, Gwen.”

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Book:Mystery Man

Source: Mystery Man

“I can’t spend my life waiting around for men to decide they want me to be a part of theirs.”

Men Relationships Self Love Independence

Book:The Baker's Man

Source: The Baker's Man

“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

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