“Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it.” MenWomenMarriageHonestyTricksDeceptionAttachmentClevernessPermanency Book:The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.” GrowthChangeSocietyHuman NatureDevelopmentPermanency Book:The Soul of Man under Socialism Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism