Admire Quote by Robin Becker

“We know we are very special,” Davis writes in “Special”: “Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not…

— Lydia Davis

“Mr. Levov was one of those slum-reared Jewish fathers whose rough-hewn, undereducated perspective goaded a whole generation of striving, college-educated Jewish sons: a father…

— Philip Roth

“So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the…

— Emma Cline

“…his intention was pure. He didn’t know why, but he liked a girl and he felt compelled to do something about it. That’s how…

— Hilary Winston

I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's…

— Liz Phair

“Invincibility reveals admirers, vulnerability reveals family.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“George Washington was in love with one girl after another during his youth, but for some reason he was unsuccessful in all these early…

— Sterling North

“A man who is raised by a misogynistic father can absorb his father's contempt for women very early in life. The boy learns that…

— Susan Forward

“The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and acts of…

— Rosalind Coward

“He is suddenly, dodderer and ass, taken by an ache in his skin, a simple love for them both that asks nothing but their…

— Thomas Pynchon

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

— Catherine Opie

“There's just no happily ever after in Janie's book. But they both know there is something. Something good between them. There is respect. And…

— Lisa McMann