Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not b…

H. L. Mencken
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Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they practise a magic inherited from savagery, but simply and solely because they have sense. They see at a glance what most men could not see with searchlights and telescopes.... They are the supreme realists of the race. ✨ In Defense of Women, rev. ed., pt. 1, ch. 5 (1922)
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