“Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.”
Source: Middlesex
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Variant: It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Source: Peeps
As quoted by Teles of Megara, fr. 2, On Self-Sufficiency
“One may be humble out of pride.”
Book II, Ch. 17. Of Presumption
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“As if true pride
Were not also humble!”
In an Album.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.”
Source: Devil in Winter
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 28.
Gayle King XM satellite radio program (October 23, 2006)
2007, 2008
Source: SCUM MANIFESTO (1967), p. [1].