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I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking ‘Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject?

Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman…

She was wise enough to hold her tongue. As this is the only instance known of a Woman’s ever having done so, it was judged worthy to be recorded here.

With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there — not always, but more often than not. With girls, ‘Why her?’ came up so quickly.

William Faulkner

You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.