Quote#World
Women in general are not interested in questions of principle as…
Quote byErnest Belfort Bax · 1854–1926
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: ‘No Misogyny But True Equality’ (1887), To-Day magazine, October issue ‘No Misogyny But True Equality’.
English (original)
Women in general are not interested in questions of principle as such, but at most only in so far as they affect particular personalities. They require the dramatic element to evoke their interest. With many men, on the contrary, though this element of course enhances interest, it is not the indispensable condition of interest.
— Ernest Belfort Bax
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