I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them. (Germaine Greer)

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Germaine Greer

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