275 quotes found
“There are three stupids:A woman who thinks she does not deserve more, a man who believes he is superior, and a God who considers himself always right.”
“I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to ...”
“they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.”
“Men are easily threatened. And whenever a man is threatened, when he becomes uncomfortable in places within himself that he does not understand, he naturally retreats into an arena of comfort or co...”
“Women have always moaned about men...but it turns out that their deepest complaints are reserved for one another, because while they expect men to be fickle, treacherous, and weak, they judge their...”
“We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.”
“Many millennials...feel unsafe if someone they disagree with speaks at an event they dont have to attend on their campus....theyre trying to figure out what gender they are and which bathroom they ...”
“Moving beyond past wounds and hurts and building a culture of respect, dignity, and flowering love”
“Delving deeply in this [gender healing] work inevitably takes people on an inner journey, and, if they follow it far enough, they are ultimately let into an awakening of an expansive, all-encompass...”
“In gender reconciliation groups, we collectively reach for an unknown power or grace that has a healing potential far beyond our own capabilities or understanding. We invite this power and presence...”
“Identity is one of those absurd synthetic terms that if you ask someone about it, they cant give you a proper definition of it without recapping what theyve learned in school. Identity supposedly i...”
“[O]nce we give up on the idea that only heterosexuality is normal and that all human bodies are clearly either male or female, more and more kinds of bodies and desires will come into view. Perhaps...”
“But since were on the topic of identity and narrative voice - heres an interesting conundrum. You may know that The Correspondence Artist won a Lambda Award. I love the Lambda Literary Foundation, ...”
“Being socialized female and spending my life "othered" by this world gives me a unique perspective. In the past, this has felt like shit. In the present, it feels pretty good. In the future I hope ...”
“Today, many of us are trying to understand just what male and female energies are, since we are calling old rigid stereotypes into questions. There is a risk of replacing such stereotypes with even...”
“A forum where real stories can be told, in uncensored detail, and be truly heard. A forum that is not limited to dialogue alone but welcomes the consequences of asking the deep questions where tea...”
“Gender healing and reconciliation consciously invokes this universal love of the heart, which in the end has the capacity to overcome the very real and formidable challenges of gender oppression an...”
“...the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.”
“Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.”
“Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-the gold lion, the bearded bullwhich breaks thr...”
