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"Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress."
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"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."
"I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far."
"Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'"
"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."
"I have no confidence in USA law enforcement."
"These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason."
"Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress."
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"We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?"
"Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?"
"Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another."
"Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age."
"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
"A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life."
"No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him."
"Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued."
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