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1 " He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them. "
― Julian Barnes , Flaubert's Parrot
2 " men should not be sexing their women in the missionary position because they are facing away from the sky. Instead of looking down, men are to look up. To the vastness of Father Sky "
― Matthew Fox , The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
3 " They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place. "
― Brandon Sanderson , Elantris (Elantris, #1)
4 " Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman. "
5 " Generally the men always tried to appear strong; they walked tall, heads upright, arms steady at the sides, and feet firmly planted like trees. Solid, Jericho walls of men. But when they went out in the bush to relieve themselves and nobody was looking, the fell apart like crumbling towers and wept with the wretched grief of forgotten concubines.And when they returned to the presence of their women and children and everybody else, they stuck hands deep inside torn pockets until they felt their dry thighs, kicked little stones out of the way, and erected themselves like walls again, but then the women, who knew all the ways of weeping and all there was to know about falling apart, would not be deceived; they gently rose from the hearths, beat dust off their skirts, and planted themselves like rocks in front of their men and children and shacks, and only then did all appear almost tolerable. "
― NoViolet Bulawayo , We Need New Names
6 " Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them. "
― Terrence Real , How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
7 " Those who cannot conquer must bend the knee. They must find strength, or serve those of us who have. You are my generals. I will send you out: my hunting dogs, my wolves with iron teeth. When a city closes its gates in fear, you will destroy it. When they make roads and walls, you will cut them, pull down the stones. When a man raises a sword or bow against your men, you will hang him from a tree. Keep Karakorum in your minds as you go. This white city is the heart of the nation, but you are the right arm, the burning brand. Find me new lands, gentlemen. Cut a new path. Let their women weep a sea of tears and I will drink it all. "
― Conn Iggulden , Khan: Empire of Silver (Conqueror, #4)
8 " Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. " That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful. "
9 " The only place men want depth in their women is in their décolletage "
― Zsa Zsa Gabor
10 " Boys dream of strippers, men dream of their women waiting for them at home. "
11 " There is nothing, he tells me, more odious than a German. However, their women are seductive, and they make the world's most beautiful music. My employer sings me a German song. He sounds like a buffalo in distress. Afterward he makes me read to him from the Bible. "
― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016
12 " Noticing Cooper watching me, I paused mid-chew. “You really are happy, aren’t you, baby?” “Yes,” I said, stroking his shirt and feeling giddy. I’d never imagined I would share anything like this day with anyone, let alone someone as beautiful as Cooper. “Are you happy?” “If you’re happy, I’m happy. That’s how men are. They like when their women are content.” “Did your dad tell you that?” “Oh, yeah. Pop hasn’t stayed married all these years by being a fool. "
― Bijou Hunter , Damaged and the Beast (Damaged, #1)
13 " The central attitudes driving Rambo are:Strength and aggressiveness are good; compassion and conflict resolution are bad.Anything that could be even remotely associated with homosexuality, including walking away from possible violence or showing any fear or grief, has to be avoided at any cost.Femaleness and femininity (which he associates with homosexuality) are inferior. Women are here to serve men and be protected by them.Men should never hit women, because it is unmanly to do so. However, exceptions to this rule can be made for my own partner if her behavior is bad enough. Men need to keep their women in line.You are a thing that belongs to me, akin to a trophy. "
― Lundy Bancroft , Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
14 " Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. (" I'm Dangerous Tonight" ) "
15 " Once— and most of the night definitely counts as once—you can write off as a mistake. But you do this again and he's going to start thinking he has rights over you.” She knew predatory changeling men. They liked control. They particularly liked their women to submit. And Riley was one big giant hunk of testosterone-fueled Neanderthal wolf—he probably thought her submission was his right. She snorted. “Not in this lifetime. "
― Nalini Singh , Branded by Fire (Psy-Changeling, #6)
16 " I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly. "
