“The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.” — Freya Stark (quoted in “East Is West” by Claudia Roth Pierpont)
With men it’s violence
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“The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.” — Freya Stark (quoted in “East Is West” by Claudia Roth Pierpont)
Meh. Some of us are not pretending.
And can I say how much more interesting is a violent man than a stupid woman? He can always have a redemptive, heroic moment. She will just stand there gaping idiotically, trilling, I think I broke a heel!
She broke it when she whapped him upside the head with it. Shoulda known. Stiletto, too.