“I don’t know if it’s enough for a whole life, a man wants to enjoy many women, a man is different.”
Elfriede Jelinek (1946) Austrian writer
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Women As Lovers (1994)
“The captain is different too, Cyana. Before, the Roc flew under half a man, a man who’d only known victory. Now I’m a whole man. I know defeat as well.”
— Samuel R. Delany, book Nova
Source: Nova (1968), Chapter 5 (p. 142)
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