“What men yearn for they often destroy.”
Source: The Dovekeepers
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Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952Related quotes
“Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.”
Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 23.
As quoted in The Quotable Woman (1978) by Elaine T Partnow, p. 226. "When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place" has sometimes been quoted as her original statement, though she states that she herself is quoting an abbot.
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XXI, Afterword, p. 312
Nītiśataka 74; translated by B. Hale Wortham
Śatakatraya
“We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.”
Actually from 1969 leaflet by The Feminists, "Women: Do You Know the Facts About Marriage?". Its text was reprinted in the anthology Sisterhood is Powerful edited by Robin Morgan.
Misattributed
“Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen”