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If we are to inspire men to father it also helps to stop reflexively condemning men as afraid of commitment and address what they are afraid of. –page246.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.
Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)
Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn’t get all its oil from OPEC.
Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)
Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Male makeup is men’s titles, status and paying for dates. Makeup is what both sexes use to bridge the gap between the power they have and the power they’d like to have. Both male and female makeup are compensations for feelings of powerlessness.
Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)
Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion He asked me out, therefore he pays is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.
Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)
I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.
Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994)
This is the first time in history that we’ve had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.
Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994)
The best way to use these lists to replace anger with love in real life is to nurture each other by doing for your partner what your partner normally does for you.
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
While the Moynihan Report identified the quarter of black children born outside marriage as a crisis with a solution in 1965, today the percentage of white children born outside marriage is 36 percent.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
deprivation of the beautiful woman and sex with her until the man guarantees economic security in return; (...)
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
A week after you read this chapter, misandry will become apparent in commercials, in films, in everyday conversations. But the bias that is hardest to see is the bias we share.
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Empathy for women is an attribute of masculinity. When men play the protector role they are trying to save a woman from grief or pain. If they had no glimpse of her grief or pain, they wouldn’t know when to protect.
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
Here’s why I predict emotional intelligence will be paramount for your son’s future: the more sophisticated artificial intelligence becomes, the more we will yearn for humans to fill the emotional intelligence void.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Men will not change as long as women ‘marry up.’ Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.
Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)
The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
When a boy drives down the serpentine road of mental health, feeling depressed and isolated because he feels no one who knows the real him loves him, no one needs him, and there’s no hope of that changing, he may one day find a cliff and drive off.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The Male Teacher Corps not only exposes children to men from a variety of professions, but exposes children to men with more risk-taking, entrepreneurial male energy and values, creating a balance between exposure to the male and female value systems.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)