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..the hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves-and encourage men to see us-as more than just the sum of our sexual parts: not as virgins or whores, as mothers or girlfriends, or as existing only in relation to men, but as people with independent desires, hopes and abilities. But I know that this can't happen as long as American culture continues to inundate us with gender-role messages that place everyone-men and women-in an unnatural hierarchical order that's impossible to maintain without strife. For women to move forward, and for men to break free, we need to overcome the masculinity status quo-together. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#men #status-quo #women #men

Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #women #love

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else. ↗

— Aristotle

#man #men

Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#men

The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same. ↗

— George Pelecanos

#truth #men

Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time. ↗

— Sebastian Junger

#men

When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school--I went to school for a long time--I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis.... ↗

— Alice Mattison

#men

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#humanity #men

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing ↗

— Edmund Burke

#evil #good #men #world #men

Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...) Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#morgaine #men