Tiny Elf Arcanist

“Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, far more complicated. Later surveys and studies would suggest that Millennial men as a whole turned out to be as “traditional,” and even less egalitarian, in their attitudes towards gender as their fathers—which made experts eventually posit that growing up with fathers impacted by gender masculinity crisis made them more, not less, resistant to gender equality.”
― Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

“In short, Tress was a normal teenage girl. She knew this because the other girls often mentioned how they weren’t like “everyone else,” and after a while Tress figured that the group “everyone else” must include only her. The other girls were obviously right, as they all knew how to be unique—they were so good at it, in fact, that they did it together.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Do you think it’s too feminine to like flowers?” I ask Tristan, for no real reason. “On the contrary,” he replies. “Being able to recognize the true beauty of things is the mark of a real man.”
― Jeanne Roland, Journeys

“She wasn’t even certain she was Tress anymore, or if she’d become someone else. You could say, in other words, that her state at the moment was distress”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea