That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as... →
Chris Abani
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where... →
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Grown men do not need leaders.
At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors.... →
Karen Abbott
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The... →
Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in... →
In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's... →