Men
And Women Quotes - Something wrong with your child?
“It's
a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys,
then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were
all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of
peace skimmed over when they happened.”
―
Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves
“Something
wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your
man? Feed him and take him to bed. Lady Jeeha "Wolf Dawn”
―
Susan Cartwright
“Men,
being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to
believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They
act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it
afterward.”
―
Wilkie Collins, No Name
“I
am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an
inadequate partner."
He
threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.”
―
Jennifer Armintrout, Ashes to Ashes
“I
harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage
partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a
multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men and women can
blame one another and everything except themselves for matrimony's mess. They
look for externals over which they have no control and, fingering them, take no
responsibility.”
―
Robert Dykstra, She Never Said Good-Bye
“How
can men be such lummoxes, such wads of chewing gum on our ballet slippers and
still feel so good?”
―
Tom Robbins
“A
society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is
necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely,
a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups",
was one in which men were obligated.”
―
Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
“Can
I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming.
She'd always sounded like that after they'd-
He
didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a
crawl space and walled it up alive.”
―
Jennifer Armintrout, Ashes to Ashes
“I
have watched him as only a woman can watch a man upon whom her fate depends,
but it has always been in vain.”
―
Émile Gaboriau, File No. 113
“Cuz
I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I
don’t have enough digits for that—but who have truly loved me.”
―
Shannon Celebi, After Spring Comes
“As
is true for financial markets, total transparency between the sexes would go a
long way towards eliminating irrational exuberance.”
―
George Hammond
“The
probation officer had given my input a single paragraph. She had taken my words
but constructed her own sentences, shaving all context away. I just want him to
get better, it said. She gave me a voice of forgiveness and submission, the
agony neatly paved over. She'd reduced my suffering to the line, I don't
experience joy from this. She'd drawn her own conclusion: He doesn't need to be
behind bars. This woman, who had been absent for the entire battle, had arrived
to take the victory away.”
―
Chanel Miller, Know My Name
“We'd
gotten an arrest, a guilty verdict, the small percentage that gets the
conviction. It was time to see what justice looked like. We threw open the
doors, and there was nothing. It took the breath out of me.”
―
Chanel Miller, Know My Name
“One
of the greatest dangers of victimhood is the singling out; all of your
attributes and anecdotes assigned blame. In court they'll try to make you
believe you are unlike the others, you are different, an exception. You are
dirtier, more stupid, more promiscuous. But it's a rick. The assault is never
personal, the blaming is.”
―
Chanel Miller, Know My Name
“One
of the greatest dangers of victimhood is the singling out; all of your
attributes and anecdotes assigned blame. In court they'll try to make you believe
you are unlike the others, you are different, an exception. You are dirtier,
more stupid, more promiscuous. But it's a trick. The assault is never personal,
the blaming is.”
―
Chanel Miller, Know My Name
“Brock
said he'd failed to tell the detective so many crucial details upon his initial
arrest[ed] ...my mind was going a million miles an hour, and it was impossible
for me to think clearly about what happened. Meanwhile victims are always
expected to think clearly, we don't get to use fear as an excuse.”
―
Chanel Miller, Know My Name
“The
officer claimed he'd been scared, had reason to believe Philando was reaching
for his gun. Show me that scenario. A man seated with a trunk full of melting
groceries, wearing a thin layer of cotton, a little girl in the backseat. About
to whip out his gun, shoot through the cop's bulletproof vest, to be his own
getaway driver? Why would Philando shoot an innocent man withing forty seconds
of meeting him? Why would the officer?”
―
Chanel Miller, Know My Name
“When you say go to the police, what do you
envision?...the police will move on to other cases while the victim is left in
the agonizing, protracted judicial process, where she will be made to question,
and then forget, who she is. You were physically attacked? Here's some
information on how you can enter a multiyear process of verbal abuse.”
―
Chanel Miller, Know My Name
“When
I was given the opportunity to write this book, whatever God is up there said,
You got your dream. I said, Actually I was hoping for a lighter topic, and God
was like, Ha ha! You thought you got to choose.”
―
Chanel Miller, Know My Name
“...Leith,
you're my literary agent.
I'm
quite happy to insert kicking your husband's backside into my job description
at no extra charge.”
―
Sulari Gentill, After She Wrote Him
“Nothing
would upset me more than the thought that I had left you to survive on pizza
and beer like some....some....
Edward
laughed. He suddenly felt like pizza.”
―
Sulari Gentill, After She Wrote Him
