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“There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They...”
“Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.”
“He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men should...”
“But, if you've decided to go out on a limb and kill one, for goodness' sake, be prepared. We all read, with dismay, the sad story of a good woman wronged in south Mississippi who took that option a...”
“His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth.”
“...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!”
“So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.”
“...Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.”
“What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me ...”
“Men are always lost, they are confused and afraid, thus they are more trouble than they're worth.”
“You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.”
“For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.”
“Women readers aren`t turned on by nice heroes any more than male readers lust after heroines who are too virtuous.There should be at least a hint,maybe even a promise, of corruptibility.”
“Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.”
“The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-h...”
“Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy to continue until they're caught.”
“The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.”
“A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice.”
“Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? ...”
“The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.”
