Guyland Book Quotes

#1. To Lilo, Suleika, Constance, and Raul, thank you for coming up with some really good character names when I was in a pinch.

Kayti Nika Raet

#2. The pull of Guyland reminds us that women cannot accomplish this transformation alone. In the book's final chapter I argue that just as men need to stand up, do the right thing and break the silence that perpetuates Guyland, so, too, do women need to support each other in resisting its pull.

Michael Kimmel

#3. Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

James F. Cooper

#4. In order to get some help in your love walk, all you have to do is ask God to let you see these people through His eyes.

Anna M. Aquino

#5. I have my own strength.

Nina Hagen

#6. As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.

Kevin DeYoung

#7. People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.

Patricia Richardson

#8. End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)

Anne Stevens

#9. So. Ever get the urge to drown anyone?' Ariadne asked.
'No!' Andy replied, horrified.
'Shes just messing with you,' Helen assured her. Her face dropped. 'Seriously, though. What's your stance on strangling?'
'You mean apart from wanting to strangle both of you right now?

Josephine Angelini

#10. Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back.

Robin Olds