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![Warren Farrell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1418632379i/88805._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.”
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![Toba Beta](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1709205708i/3336353._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.
If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.
If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic.”
― Master of Stupidity
If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.
If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic.”
― Master of Stupidity
![Dorothy Parker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188820565i/24956._UY200_CR39,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that cleans up the matter.”
― Enough Rope
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that cleans up the matter.”
― Enough Rope
![Julian Barnes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1606567988i/1462._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
![Sylvia Plath](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613135175i/4379._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
![Marguerite Duras](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1559929920i/163._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.”
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![John Gower](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1311769642i/623117._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his imagination has foolishly taken of women, is fanning the flames within himself -- and, since the woman knows nothing about it, she is not to blame. For if a man incites himself to drown, and will not restrain himself, it is not the water's fault.”
― Confessio Amantis, Volume 1
― Confessio Amantis, Volume 1
![Jessica Valenti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1447700019i/222118._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“..the hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves-and encourage men to see us-as more than just the sum of our sexual parts: not as virgins or whores, as mothers or girlfriends, or as existing only in relation to men, but as people with independent desires, hopes and abilities. But I know that this can't happen as long as American culture continues to inundate us with gender-role messages that place everyone-men and women-in an unnatural hierarchical order that's impossible to maintain without strife. For women to move forward, and for men to break free, we need to overcome the masculinity status quo-together.”
― The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
― The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
![Moderata Fonte](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1299850378i/893320.jpg)
“[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.”
― The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
― The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
![bell hooks](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1661989440i/10697._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined notions of male identity. Caring about men because of what they do for us is not the same as loving males for simply being. When we love maleness, we extend our love whether males are performing or not. Performance is different from simply being. In patriarchal culture males are not allowed simply to be who they are and to glory in their unique identity. Their value is always determined by what they do. In an anti-patriarchal culture males do not have to prove their value and worth. They know from birth that simply being gives them value, the right to be cherished and loved.”
― The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
― The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
![Christine de Pizan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1226260516i/51133._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured. (...)
Therefore, since it is necessary to call on such skill, ingenuity, and effort in order to seduce a woman, whether of high or humble birth, the logical conclusion to draw is that women are by no means as fickle as some men claim, or as easily influenced in their behaviour. And if anyone tells me that books are full of women like these, it is this very reply, frequently given, which causes me to complain. My response is that women did not write these books nor include the material which attacks them and their morals. Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. But if women had written these books, I know full well the subject would have been handled differently. They know that they stand wrongfully accused, and that the cake has not been divided up equally, for the strongest take the lion's share, and the one who does the sharing out keeps the biggest portion for himself.”
― Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
Therefore, since it is necessary to call on such skill, ingenuity, and effort in order to seduce a woman, whether of high or humble birth, the logical conclusion to draw is that women are by no means as fickle as some men claim, or as easily influenced in their behaviour. And if anyone tells me that books are full of women like these, it is this very reply, frequently given, which causes me to complain. My response is that women did not write these books nor include the material which attacks them and their morals. Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. But if women had written these books, I know full well the subject would have been handled differently. They know that they stand wrongfully accused, and that the cake has not been divided up equally, for the strongest take the lion's share, and the one who does the sharing out keeps the biggest portion for himself.”
― Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
![Andrea Dworkin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1280820472i/23879._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.”
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![Gloria Steinem](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206803134i/57108._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.”
― The Vagina Monologues
― The Vagina Monologues
![Elizabeth Bowen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1457373455i/52578._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”
― The Death of the Heart
― The Death of the Heart
![Maya Banks](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1490067531i/24978._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."
He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.”
― Hidden Away
He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.”
― Hidden Away
![Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1699348762i/11139._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
![Alexandre Dumas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1279049943i/4785._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.”
― The Three Musketeers
― The Three Musketeers
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.”
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![Dorothy Parker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188820565i/24956._UY200_CR39,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
![Christine de Pizan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1226260516i/51133._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?”
― Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
― Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
![Warsan Shire](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1358876300i/5431334._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.”
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![Friedrich Nietzsche](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651474065i/1938._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Eva Rice](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1224264444i/52717.jpg)
“Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.”
― The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
― The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
![Sheila Heti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1324044844i/183760._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.”
― How Should a Person Be?
― How Should a Person Be?
![Elisabeth Elliot](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1200336337i/6264._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.”
― Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
― Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
![Gloria Steinem](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206803134i/57108._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)”
― The Vagina Monologues
― The Vagina Monologues
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