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“She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should train and put in time as guardians, but that the women should eventually r...”
“If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?”
“He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.”
“In particular, husbands and wives who do poorly at nonverbal communication tend to be dissatisfied with their marriages. Moreover, when such problems occur, it's usually the husband's fault .In the...”
“Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.”
“Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.”
“She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you...”
“If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he...”
“It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the mercy of a man, the man would not, could not, refuse.”
“And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be...”
“Women are born to serve and breed, and when we fail at this, what else is there? What is it that we can do that men can't? We bring their screaming mouths into this world only to be told by those m...”
“Now listen to me. I will not walk on one-way streets any longer. Your wound is my wound, (though you don't know that mine is yours), and I do what I can, but the well will run dry. You will use us ...”
“Man is always inferior to a woman, a fact he will never realize nor confess in his lifetime!”
“I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may well feel ashamed. If we must read poetry, it shou...”
“Men are all very well, and a good husband can be enormously useful, but women like us need something to do.”
“they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.”
“No woman should build her life waiting for a man to come along and save her. It's a tragic waste of brains and talent.”
“I just meant maybe you could set here and drink one of em with me.He squinted at her. You ever notice how women have trouble takin no for a answer? I think itstarts about age three.What about men?T...”
“There is atleast one day for women but what about men's day?”
“He did not want them themselves really. They were too complicated. There was something else. Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a g...”
