“In a region of mind without coed irony, where women are draped like Ash Wednesday statues (as too hot to handle) and stoned to death on an accusation of adultery (as too insignificant to cry over), men, among themselves, have achieved an elegant ease of confraternity and sentimentality.”

Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)

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American journalist and essayist 1944

Joanna Russ (1937–2011) American author

Existence (1975)
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“Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Min Farshaw
(15 October 1991)

“It will be impossible to achieve this (keeping the people together) if the elders and chiefs have their own way and are too proud of their chiefly status to not bring themselves down to the people.”

Joni Madraiwiwi (1957–2016) Fijian politician

Speech to the Lau Provincial Council, 11 May 2005.

“Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

“It is not too difficult to find people in that country [Ireland] crying over what they have lost.”

Mark Tully (1935) British journalist

It's Sir Mark Tully in UK honors list, 2001

“As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“One cannot look too closely at and weigh in too golden scales the acts of men hot in their political excitement.”

Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton (1817–1907) British judge

Ex parte Castioni (1890), 60 L. J. Rep. (N. S.) Mag. Cas. 33.

“They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Women believed in death. Without exception. It was part of their makeup. Whereas men refused to face up to it. Not only death, in fact, but life, too: a man, learning that his wife or girlfriend is pregnant, reacts like some beast of the field - "I can't believe it's true!" - while women look at the same situation as either happy news or a momentary inconvenience.”

Françoise Sagan (1935–2004) French writer

Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)

“In a region of mind without coed irony, where women are draped like Ash Wednesday statues (as too hot to handle) and stoned to death on an accusation of adultery (as too insignificant to cry over), men, among themselves, have achieved an elegant ease of confraternity and sentimentality.”

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