“The men I’ve met who were the best allies of feminism are those who see their stake in it; who see that they themselves are being limited by a culture that deprives men of human qualities deemed feminine, which are actually just the qualities necessary to raise kids — empathy and attention to detail and patience.”

— Gloria Steinem

The Humanist interview (2012)
Context: The men I’ve met who were the best allies of feminism are those who see their stake in it; who see that they themselves are being limited by a culture that deprives men of human qualities deemed feminine, which are actually just the qualities necessary to raise kids — empathy and attention to detail and patience. Men have those qualities too but they’re not encouraged to develop them. And so they miss out on raising their kids, and they actually shorten their own lives. When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

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Giovanni Boccaccio book The Decameron

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“Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

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Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects (1856) Lecture IV : Portrait Gallery
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Context: The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.