"The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'."

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Source : "Redefining fatherhood: What it means to 'be a man' today" by Joy Jernigan, www.today.com. June 10, 2014.

Joe Ehrmann

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“Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.”
“Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.”
“Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a jerk, Where are you? What are you doing here? Oh yes, of course, you are somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic, with hungry waves below you like vultures impatiently waiting for the end.”

Source : Amy Johnson (1939). “Sky Roads of the World”
“My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.”
“It's better to be skinny than to be fat.”

Source : "Natalia Vodianova: ‘It’s Better to Be Skinny Than to Be Fat’" by Hattie Crisell, www.thecut.com. April 23, 2012.
“You are the one that you are looking for.”
“St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.”

Source : "MLB by the Numbers, but Who's Buying?". Sports Business Journal, December 24-30, 2001.
“I think women don't see themselves and their sexuality as wholesome. And yet men's sexuality is everywhere. We experience it as a culture in stadiums, thousands of raging fans of male sexuality, screaming, "Kick the ball over the goal post. Get the ball in the hoop. Score a home run." Male sexuality lives in that prowess of the scoring, of conquering, of getting, of that beautiful male energy of domination, aggression, and the competition.”

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