“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”
John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic
“Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.”
— Wilkie Collins, book Man and Wife
Man and Wife - Vol. II [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1870] ( p. 235 https://books.google.com/books?id=Dp-ZFYLTW6QC&pg=PA235) <br class="br">Also in Wilkie Collins: Man of Mystery and Imagination by Alexander Grinstein [International Universities Press, 2003, 0-823-66681-6] (p. 155)
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