‘You mean, being a woman I must like to hear complimentary things said about women? Perhaps. But then each of us always makes an exception for ourselves in such generalizations. Hence that other class of men, who seek to win the favour of the female sex by roundly abusing them. Many a woman sees that as a challenge: “I’ll convert him,” thinks she. And if she can get the man to esteem her, whilst despising all her sisterhood, then all the better. Where’s the merit in fascinating a man who admires all women anyway?’
