“The tragedy of a man who has found himself out.”

— J. M. Barrie, What Every Woman Knows

Act IV
What Every Woman Knows (1908)

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Scottish writer 1860–1937

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: A Thousand Mornings

“Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.”

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States

Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)
Context: I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing — his sense of personal dignity. From Orestes to Hamlet, Medea to Macbeth, the underlying struggle is that of the individual attempting to gain his "rightful" position in his society.
Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but the fateful wound from which the inevitable events spiral is the wound of indignity and its dominant force is indignation. Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.

“Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.”

Jill Johnston book Lesbian Nation

Lesbian Nation, p. 190.