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Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic. (Augustus )
Men are what their mothers made them. (Augustus )
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. (Augustus )
There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded. (Augustus )
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else. (Augustus )
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. (Augustus )
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. (Augustus )
Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action. (Augustus )
The little man is still a man. (Augustus )
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. (Augustus )
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. (Augustus )
Some men demand rough treatment everywhere! (Augustus )
A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman. (Augustus )
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul. (Augustus )
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. (Augustus )
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular. (Augustus )
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. (Augustus )
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. (Augustus )
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male. (Augustus )
Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally a man any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. (Augustus )
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden. (Augustus )
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