Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott, Part 3
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
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Women's Relationships With Women
With women we speak of love, duty, right, wrong, pity, hope and other irrational and emotional conceptions which have no existence. But among ourselves and in our books we have an entirely different vocabulary and I may almost say idiom. Among women we use language implying the utmost difference for their sex. They fully believe that the chief circle himself is not more devoutly adored by us than they are. Behind their backs they are both regarded and spoken of by all except the very young as little better than mindless organisms.
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