Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing Quotes

“paraphrase Confucius, real knowledge is finding out the depths of one’s own ignorance.”
― David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing

“To be human is often an endless tangle of invisible forces and confounding paradoxes, of being many things all at the same time.”
― David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing

“Maybe, in the unfathomable reaches of the male psyche, men have always been frightened of women - or at least frightened of the feminine qualities within themselves: those qualities that point inwards, to that place where our deepest feelings are lodged, but which centuries of masculine culture have repressed or removed.

Perhaps, this is the place where violence against women begins: in the shutting down of this inner world where relationships and connection truly reside, because the models we've been given for manhood fail to recognise a fundamental truth, which is that nothing meaningful in life ever happens without the ability to be vulnerable.”
― David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing

“I thought about the opposite sex endlessly, and as I grew up, it became an almost all-consuming desire: resting my head against the soft fullness of a breast (pendulous or pert, it didn't matter), was an exquisite lullaby; being enfolded by a woman, entering a woman, was a thrilling voyage of discovery, as well as a homecoming to the warmest, safest place I'd ever been. In some ill-defined way, it was like possessing and transcending the world all at once, and it was enough to make you cry for the sheer joy of being human.”
― David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing

“I thought about the opposite sex endlessly, and as I grew up, it became an almost all-consuming desire: resting my head against the soft fullness of a breast (pendulous or pert, it didn't matter), was an exquisite lullaby; being enfolded by a woman, entering a woman, was a thrilling voyage of discovery, as well as a homecoming to the warmest, safest place I'd ever been.”
― David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing