QUOTATION: Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren.... Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.
ATTRIBUTION: George Gilder (b. 1939), U.S. editor, speechwriter, author. Sexual Suicide, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1973).
The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press.
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Piece o' trivia, the late leftish economist, Robert Lekachman, knew Gilder in the 60's. Said he started out as a "moderate" Republican in the Ripon Society. Riponites still around?
Michael Pugliese