“Between a man and a woman, collaboration and admiration are more natural than competition. The woman accepts the secondary role willingly; she gives the man what he needs in the way of courage and moral support.”

— André Maurois

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship

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