“It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness and chivalry “masculine” when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them, to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as “feminine.””

—  Clive Staples Lewis, book A Grief Observed

A Grief Observed (1961)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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