It was already obvious that every hard and demanding adaptation would be falling to the girls. Not to the boys - who were all like that anyway. The boys could just go on being boys. It was the girls who had to choose. (Martin Amis)

It was already obvious that every hard and demanding adaptation would be falling to the girls. Not to the boys - who were all like that anyway. The boys could just go on being boys. It was the girls who had to choose.

Martin Amis

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