I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
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Martha Gellhorn
I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.
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Mark Slouka
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that...
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Christopher Hitchens
How to raise sons who respect women: Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.
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Alfa H
You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
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Marilynne Robinson
More Quotes By Conn Iggulden
He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.
For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.
History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.
Xuan smiled at the thought of men sleeping peacefully next to those they would try to kill in daylight. Only humanity could have conceived such a strange and artificial way to die. Wolves might tear the flesh of deer, but they never slept and dreamed...
Those who cannot conquer must bend the knee. They must find strength, or serve those of us who have. You are my generals. I will send you out: my hunting dogs, my wolves with iron teeth. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>When a city closes its gates in...
