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Men often project a sometimes overbearing egotism and entitlement because that's what you have to do when you're not allowed to show weakness and need.
“Men often project a sometimes overbearing egotism and entitlement because that's what you have to do when you're not allowed to show weakness and need.”
— Norah Vincent · Allowed
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“Men often project a sometimes overbearing egotism and entitlement because that's what you have to do when you're not allowed to show weakness and need.”
“American conservatism always has been plagued by an irrational distaste for homosexuality, a robust and righteous hate for the sin that cannot help extending to the sinner. And this has made it well-nigh impossible for the right to see anything but corrosive evil in the gay lobby's push for equal access to heterosexual privilege.”
“Ours is a country in which you are ill-advised to be a fetus.”
“I don't share the prevailing orthodox opinion that transsexuals are members of the opposite sex simply because they have had surgery and taken hormones.”
“Smokers, like so many of us, are mavericks when they're healthy but parasites when they're not. They trash their bodies and then expect the rest of us to pick up the pieces, as well as most of the tab for the damage they've so defiantly done to themselves.”
“I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?”
“In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.”
“If I were queen for a day, every city would have to spend one hour in utter silence: no music in shops and restaurants, no honking of horns, no conversations on mobile phones. Only birds would be allowed to sing.”
“I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.”
“I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.”
“I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.”
“Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, scourge of liberals everywhere, may be hopelessly partisan, but he's never claimed to be anything else. He has an agenda, and he's honest about it. The New York Times is no less wildly partisan and has no less of an agenda, yet it presents itself as the tame word of God. And therein lies the real problem.”