Cheryl Strayed Men Quotations

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.

When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date with a serial killer. The number-one fear straight men have is going on a date with a fat woman. That says everything.

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.