I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.
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I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.
Real men change diapers!
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
No one likes change but babies in diapers.
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
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