"Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter."

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Warren Farrell

#Men Quotes #Rosie Quotes #Needed Quotes

“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.”
“Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.”
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”
“Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a family, a moment of happiness, a child, a father - that we understand the full weight of what we had.”
“You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.”

Source : Jill Lepore (2014). “The Secret History of Wonder Woman”, p.319, Vintage
“I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.”
“Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.”
“In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.”

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