J.G. Farrell Quotes
In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.
The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.
Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.
Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.
In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.
Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.
Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
The weather in this land was quite unruly, and if you couldn't appreciate the many shades of gray, you had no business living in it. Alden Garrat Warrior Heart
But now, here were the British among us, upon our soil where the sun rises over one lake and sets upon another.
How few human beings, the major thought with a sigh, can exert by hard work, thrift, intelligence or any other virtue the slightest influence on their own destiny.
The human situation, in general or in particular, is slightly worse (ignoring an occasional hiccup in the graph) at any given moment than at any preceding moment.
Prayer is a jouney, a path that is created only by walking it. It creates and reveals oneself in the process.
She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him
If my mom sees you here, she’ll ---“ “Paper the walls with my innards while the innocents watch?
But he knew how to kiss a woman until she needed his kisses more than she needed to breathe. Until her bones melted. Until she gave him exactly what he wanted.
She was the only one who made him hear music. The only one who made him feel home. The only one who wanted nothing more than for him to be plain, simple Will Truitt.
They hadn’t been good months. About as ugly as a wet warthog and as messed up as a bumblebee in a snowstorm.
Some days, Will wished he could’ve been like Mikey. Living it up, having fun, embracing the moment. But Will had never been the kind who could keep his heart out of it.
Did you call someone and tell them you’re safe?”“Called and told ’em I’m not dead. Not so sure about safeyet.
You could make friends with a possessed unicorn, couldn’t you?”“Probably so. We both fart rainbows.
You wanna go see my old bedroom?”“Is that a pickup line?”“Come on inside and you’ll find out.”How was a girl supposed to resist an offer like that?
Cinna slid down the bar, sassing three groomsmen andwinking at a fourth on her way.“I totally get why some animals eat their young, ” Pepper said.
Though everyone who mattered to him told him to walk away, though Lindsey herself told him to walk away, he was still here. And she was still glad.
You stay married thirty-four years, you don't have to prove who's got the bigger balls. Just take it for granted she does.
One day, son, you're gonna find yourself your everything. When you do, you tell her. And then you make sure you live it. Live it every day.
It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now." ~quote by Roe'vaash in "Then'diel's HEART
He glanced at her, musing on the wonder of a beautiful woman with a disagreeable personality.
So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around.
I can sit in denial of my life because in looking around I see how lucky I am to have survived it.
We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.