"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...












Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?
More Margaret Atwood quotes
"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...
"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 ...
"Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.
"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...
"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 ...
"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.
"I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of br...
"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 ...
"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...
"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 ...
"Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber gloves with only one finger, and every time she sa...