"Put bluntly, if you call yourself a reading man, but don’t read books by women, you are actually neither. Such a person implicitly dismisses whole swaths of literature, and then flees the challenge of seeing himself through other eyes. This is not a favor to feminists. This is not about how to pick up chicks. This is about hunger, greed and acquisition. Do not read books by women to murder your inner sexist pig. Do it because Edith Wharton can fucking write. It’s that simple."
— Ta-Nehisi Coates on Esquire’s list of 75 books that men should read, which includes one solitary book by a woman—Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
