Emotion

"Boys become fluent in emotional self-censorship. They become anesthetized to feelings to avoid getting caught having any."

– Liz Plank, For the Love of Men

"Boys don't cry. Be strong. Don't let him know it hurt you. If you like her, pull her pigtails. Of course when you don't share your feelings, they don't simply go away; they just come out in different ways."

– Liz Plank, For the Love of Men

"Men grew up disowning their emotions. It's a kind of emotional estrangement so pernicious and so embedded in the way we raise them it's almost invisible until it's too late."

– Liz Plank, For the Love of Men