"For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know."

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"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Gender, Courage, Tradition, Religion, Instinct

"We must dare to face the way in which patriarchal thinking blinds everyone so that we cannot see that the emotional lives of boys cannot be fully honored as long as notions of patriarchal masculinity prevail. We cannot teach boys that "real men" either do not feel or do not express feelings, then expect boys to feel comfortable getting in touch with their feelings."

bell hooks, American Critic

Gender, Emotion, Masculinity, Feeling

"No wonder then that men who cared, who were open to change, often just gave up, falling back on the patriarchal masculinity they found so problematic. The individual men who did take on the mantle of a feminist notion of male liberation did so only to find that few women respected this shift. Once the 'new man' that is the man changed by feminism was represented as a wimp, as overcooked broccoli dominated by powerful females who were secretly longing for his macho counterpart, masses of men lost interest."

bell hooks, American Critic

Gender, Masculinity, Feminism, Culture, Change

"A horny man is seen. A horny woman is heard."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Gender, Truth, Wisdom, Desire

"Many women do not join organized resistance against sexism precisely because sexism has not meant an absolute lack of choices. They may know they are discriminated against on the basis of sex, but they do not equate this with oppression. Under capitalism, patriarchy is structured so that sexism restricts women's behavior in some realms even as freedom from limitations is allowed in other spheres. The absence of extreme restrictions leads many women to ignore the areas in which they are exploited or discriminated against; it may even lead them to imagine that no women are oppressed."

bell hooks, American Critic

Gender, Oppression, Freedom, Feminism, Choice

"To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Gender, Womanhood, Pride, Acceptance, Femininity

"Men can never have the true power they were endowed with by creation, until they respect and protect the women and children of the world."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Gender, Respect, Power, Truth, Happiness

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Gender, Women, Perception, Identity, Observation

"Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Gender, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Gender, Wisdom, Power, Truth, Life

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"Strength to your arm, then."

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"Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?"

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"My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit."

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"Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now."

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"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

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"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."

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"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

"A horny man is seen. A horny woman is heard."

"To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it."

"Men can never have the true power they were endowed with by creation, until they respect and protect the women and children of the world."

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women."

"Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman."

"The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one."

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"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

"Strength to your arm, then."

"Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?"

"My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit."

"There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it."

"Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well."

"In this world the weak are the victims of the strong."

"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."