“I learned that the resentment, the anger, is impersonal. It is the disease of women in our time. I can see it in women's faces, their voices, every day, or in the letters that come to the office. The woman's emotion: resentment against injustice, an impersonal poison. The unlucky ones, who do not know it is impersonal, turn it against their men. The lucky ones like me—fight it. It is a tiring fight.”
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“It’s not all men, and yet, statistically, it will be a man.”
“There is every chance that someone in your everyday life is someone else’s monster.”
“In order to achieve real change, more than half the population needs to give a shit.”
“You wonder what it's like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”