"What interests me is why men think..." - Quote by John Updike
What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.
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“It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.”
“The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.”
“Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”
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“Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.”
“No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.”
“For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.”
More on Men
“A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.”
“Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.”
“All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.”