“Men are not listeners . . . They hear what they expect to hear, or want to hear, or are certain they will hear, and women, being supple creatures trained to please, have often told them what we women knew would satisfy them. [p. 167]”
Carolyn Heilbrun
The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
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