One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman—whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge—is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.
From Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. I read it last night, and LOVED it (as in, loved the whole thing, not just this line). But this line in particular I loved since I have found only one or two cases where it wasn't true.
From Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. I read it last night, and LOVED it (as in, loved the whole thing, not just this line). But this line in particular I loved since I have found only one or two cases where it wasn't true.
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