The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power (21st Century Essays)

• ISBN: 0814255191

Highlights

I’ve never had the courage to want the world. I’ve always let it come to me, which of course is a rather passive approach to existence, but the funny thing is: inevitably, it comes. Sooner or later, whether I wanted it or not, the world came to me; it came at me, it keeps coming at me. ^ref-15080

Girls with asses like mine do not talk to boys with faces like yours. [Karen McCullah Lutz] ^ref-33935

(I wasn’t in love with you when we got married, but I am now, whereas I suspect the opposite is true for you.) ^ref-45275

Once, I asked Jack if he loved me. “Of course I love you,” he said. “Then why don’t you ever tell me?” “It would be like having to tell you I’m breathing,” he said. “It would be like if, in a movie, the hero turned to the woman just before they ran into a barrage of gunfire, took her hand, and said, ‘Doris, I’m breathing.’ I’ve always been breathing. It would be like having her say, ‘I know. I’m breathing, too.’” [Linker] ^ref-21482

While women today think the ’90s was when the look became popular, the first Playboy centerfold featuring a shaved vagina didn’t take place until about 2002. ^ref-35336

There is one woman whom fate has destined for each of us; if we miss her, we are saved. ^ref-404

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned. ^ref-11707

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• Author: David Shields
• ASIN: B07MT424DM
• ISBN: 0814255191
• Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MT424DM
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