You have a chance to define a new kind of manhood. If you do it well, it will be a manhood in which men do not cheapen themselves ...and the women around them by the kind of casual, brittle talk that turns women into objects and sex into sport. It will be a manhood in which men see the effects of their gestures and words and most well-intentioned actions. . . . It will be a world where we can love together, laugh together, and work together without fear and without judgment; a world of celebration, not a world of accusation and apology and unexamined assumptions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity. The promiscuous w...oman is self-contaminated and incapable of clear ideas. She has ruptured the ritual integrity of her body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mother's battle for her child--with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that... cheapen human life--needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild,... or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what color it please God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threat'ning with deluge this devoted town.... To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »