That’s what you men are always doing; it’s so barbarously naive. You feel one of your loose desires for some woman, and because you desire her strongly you immediately accuse her of luring you on, of deliberately provoking and inviting the desire.
menquotes
If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.
They’re old; they’re about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now. But God doesn’t change. Men do though.
It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.
condemning / Men / War
The truth is that just as – biologically – males and females are never victims of one another but both victims of the species, so man and wife together undergo the oppression of an institution they did not create. If it is asserted that men oppress women, the husband is indignant; he feels that he is the one who is oppressed – and he is; but the fact is that it is the masculine code, it is the society developed by the males and in their interest, that has established woman’s situation in a form that is at present a source of torment for both sexes.
Men / oppression / women
In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a business or profession that their wives require them to be successful, it is because they alone embody transcendence that their wives wish to rob them of it by taking charge.
Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
There was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she’d the chance. And I warned her straight. ‘You’ll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you’d got me back’.
There are more things to admire in men then to despise.
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn’t desire is the hardest thing in the world.