“The irony: I'd been thrilled when Aaron noticed me, and when, tonight, he called me his girlfriend. But on the street, I tried to creep past any other male gazes, ghostlike. That's womanhood, I suppose, both craving and feeling repulsed by attention.”
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“Men say foolish things. If we always did what men say, our lives would be hard and short.”
“Like most men, he believed the solution was always the end of the problem.”
“We need to be looking after young men a bit better before we start demonising them.”
“Indeed, indeed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.”