“A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.”
As quoted in “When Writers Turn to Brave New Forms” by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times (24 March 1986)
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