Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.
Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries.
“Would you like to become my wife?""Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!”
“I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.”
“Love is the opposite of good sense.”
“To be the mistress of a married man is to have the better role. Do you realize? His dirty shirt, his disgusting underwear, his daily ironing, his bad breath, his hemorrhoid attacks, his fuss, not t...”
“I've never seen or touched anything.""Can you explain then how you had children?""You're right. It's true I have four kids. Four! But still I have never seen the male organ. He came into the bedroo...”
“No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.”
“If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.”
“The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.”
“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”
“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”
“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”
“Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care ofyourself? You bet. But a person whos willing to work and pay their own waycan at least take pride in that even if they ca...”
“A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.”
“He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a t...”