Carolina QuotesOn the sexes: "Man is a simple creature a very small boy who wants to be patted on the head and told he's a good boy and a nice boy and a smart boy. You can lead him anywhere. But as for women, I don't know. They got a sort of contrary, different chemistry of brain and action from men, which makes them unruly and subject to strange ts. My only advice on women is to stay out of the house when they're cleaning and don't say yes too often."
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
Ch. 2 (p. 22)
- work
- The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1957)
- year
- 1957
- locator
- p. 22
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