“There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..”
Source: Gone with the Wind
“"Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men."”
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Lavinia
Source: Lavinia (2008), p. 87
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