In the sex-war  thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male  vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated  but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said  we have still to admit  with Byron  that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted  more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty  deceit and revenge is set alight  it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.
Cyril Connolly
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