This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.