Black Lamb Grey Falcon
Her question reminded me that the word "idiot" comes from the Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: they are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details invective of their natures.
- Rebecca West
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