Edmund White Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. January 13, 1940
Birthday: January 13
For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as either the best or worst examples of American manliness.... The ideal is not an illusion nor is it contemptible, no matter what damage it may have done. Many people who scorn it in conversation want to submit to it in bed. Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.
source: 1980 States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, ch.5.
topic: Manliness, Northerners, Machismo
