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Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?

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Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would upset him. It is well known that women can deal with...more

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To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself--his extra s...more

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You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye

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Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI ...more

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Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

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He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefi...more

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There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were ...more

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I look at him with the nostalgic affection men are said to feel for their wars, their fellow veterans. I think, I once threw things at this man. I thr...more

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It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

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According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one ...more

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He was a dork, a dink, a dong… Why should the male member be used as a term of abuse? No man hated his own dorkdinkdong, quite the opposite. But maybe...more

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Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

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After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was ...more