Quote image editor
“When I was young,’ said Sybil, ‘women didn’t go to funerals, for some reason or other it wasn’t customary. Perhaps one can see why. Women nearly always outlive men, and I suppose it may have been a kind of subconscious jealousy — the men wouldn’t want to have the women standing there in the cemetery, triumphant at having outlived them.” — Barbara Pym
When I was young,’ said Sybil, ‘women didn’t go to funerals, for some reason or other it wasn’t customary. Perhaps one can see why. Women nearly always outlive men, and I suppose it may have been a kind of subconscious jealousy — the men wouldn’t want to have the women standing there in the cemetery, triumphant at having outlived them.