The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
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I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we read more
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that read more
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as read more
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to read more
The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to read more
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the read more
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
