Alice Borchardt: Quotes about men

Alice Borchardt was American fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on men.
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“Have I your word?” “yes, you have my word. But, you don’t believe me.” “no, men’s promises to women are easily made and even more easily broken.””

Alice Borchardt

Beguiled

“some men know from birth that they are expendable… they fought to won. If you did not win, you did not run either”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“A hint of ‘I’m so pleased that you strong, handsome, stalwart men are going to stand between my flower-like beauty and danger,’ wouldn’t hurt either”

Alice Borchardt book The Silver Wolf

The Silver Wolf

“Elin wondered, sitting in the sweat bath, what that had to do with passion or desire, and decided – nothing. It was justification. They had murdered the men and must prove, on the helpless bodies of the women, that they were truly stronger. Prove it to exhaustion… not even pleasure was in it for them”

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

“She was afraid of men, with good reason, but she need not fear all of them. Cai loved her and somehow always would. But above all, she could trust him, because dishonesty wasn’t in him. Not always a good trait but a part of his nature. He kept faith without thinking about it at all. He couldn’t imagine not doing so”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“And then he remembered that the other function of sex is punishment – men use it to humiliate women. And since turnabout is fair play, women often use it to humiliate men”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“He smiled at her, and she felt uncomfortable as she always did when he showed her affection as opposed to lust. Lust she expected from a man but not affection. The men in her life, her brothers and father, had not been affectionate; and lust would have been inappropriate, though she saw them direct that at other women, usually women of low rank, ripe to be used and cast aside”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen