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Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election. (Chestnut Morris)
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election. (Chestnut Morris)
As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment. (Chestnut Morris)
In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual. (Chestnut Morris)
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. (Chestnut Morris)
It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other. (Chestnut Morris)
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest. (Chestnut Morris)
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. (Chestnut Morris)
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. (Chestnut Morris)
Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane. (Chestnut Morris)
A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. (Chestnut Morris)
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. (Chestnut Morris)
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. (Chestnut Morris)
Men are the dreams of a shadow. (Chestnut Morris)
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. (Chestnut Morris)
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake. (Chestnut Morris)
He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie. (Chestnut Morris)
Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous. (Chestnut Morris)
Prudent men woo thrifty women. (Chestnut Morris)
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. (Chestnut Morris)
There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly. (Chestnut Morris)
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