## Highlights As a young woman in my twenties who had not yet found her own powers, I often wished the men in my life would die. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hsm8zq7hjq7ea3xn793ktrb5)) - 💭 new perspective to know that extreme cases of dominance can lead to this way of thinking It is true that masses of men have not even begun to look at the ways that patriarchy keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate. They must be able to choose life over death. They must be willing to change. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hsm8yysmq111c4ad1fw3xrcq)) . I knew at age five that those hands would acknowledge me only when they were bringing me pain, that if I could accept that pain and hold it close, I could be Daddy’s girl. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hsm96kbefjcpanek38xwpv63)) The reality is that men are hurting and that the whole culture responds to them by saying, “Please do not tell us what you feel.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hsm9ccw6nqq7kv9x582sp4p2)) - 💭 similar to problems healthygamergg mentioned for men not reaching out during suicide