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Quotes About Men

Everyone had run to do her bidding. Soon only the three men--the three useless ones--had been left in the sitting room to fight terror and nausea and fits of the vapors. The door opened. Three pale, terrified faces turned toward it. -the three manly men waiting during a childbirth
~ Mary Balogh
Would she never learn not to trust any man—at least not with her emotions?
~ Mary Balogh
He was asked, rhetorically, he guessed, if he supposed the irons would heat themselves, a question that was followed by a not particularly complimentary remark about men.
~ Mary Balogh
Oh, how helpless women were. All they could do was nurture those people within the small confines of their world. But who knew? Perhaps nurturing was ultimately as important as anything else. Look where the wars waged by men had got the world. Into ever more wars and conflicts—that was where.
~ Mary Balogh
I wonder you did not marry. Cecily has told me that you were in society once. You are so beautiful and so wise, I wonder all the men did not love you. Elizabeth laughed. There were so many duels over who should have me, she said, that finally there was no one left alive to claim my hand. I am a very tragic figure, you know.
~ Mary Balogh
she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Between bad ideas of gender neutrality and even worse ideas of the innocence of pornography, we reach the world so vividly described by so many dissatisfied women today, one where men act like stereotypical women, and retreat from real relationships into a fantasy life via pornography (rather than Harlequin novels), and where women conversely act like stereotypical men, taking the lead in leaving their marriages and firing angry charges on the way, out of frustration and withheld sex.
~ Mary Eberstadt
When men sell their souls, where do the souls go?
~ Mary Oliver
They came across more ragged men resting in the shade of an oak tree. These soldiers all wore blue uniforms. Again
~ Mary Pope Osborne
5) The word Vikings means "fighting men." Vikings included Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Frequent bowel movements were associated with an increased risk of rectal cancer in men, and constipation was associated with a decreased risk." Mike Jones wasn't surprised. The medical community was never completely on board Burkitt's fiber train.
~ Mary Roach
Irritable bowel syndrome is a well-documented, little-publicized aftermath of diarrheal infections—especially severe or repeated bouts. If you talk to people who've recently been diagnosed with IBS, about a third of them will say that their symptoms began after a bad attack of food poisoning. Defense Department databases reveal a five-fold higher risk of IBS among men and women who suffered an acute diarrheal infection while deployed in the Middle East.
~ Mary Roach
And ever since, the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle, knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready. For
~ Mary Roach
This book is a tribute to the men and women who dared. Who, to this day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and prudery. Their lives are not easy. But their cocktail parties are the best. p
~ Mary Roach
even in death, men couldn't be trusted to comport themselves respectably in the presence of a lady.
~ Mary Roach
I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
~ Mary Shelley
But now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.
~ Mary Shelley
Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity. Rely, therefore, on your hopes; and if these friends are good and amiable, do not despair.
~ Mary Shelley
The hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.
~ Mary Shelley
To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate; but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity. Rely, therefore, on your hopes.
~ Mary Shelley
We have lived under the edge of doom, and feel ourselves now facing the long-threatened fate. But hear this Emrys: fate is made by men, not gods.
~ Mary Stewart
should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No: from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery. "The sun rose; I heard the voices of men, and knew that it was impossible to return to my retreat during that day.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
All men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Far from being laws to protect women, antipolygamy statutes may really do more to protect men.
~ Matt Ridley