I am always amazed, in myself and in other women, at the strength of our need to bolster men up. This is ironical, living as we do in a time of men's criticizing us for being 'castrating', etc., - all the other words and phrases of the same kind. {Nelson says his wife is 'castrating' - this makes me angry, thinking of the misery she must have lived through.} For the truth is, women have this deep instinctive need to build a man up as a man. Molly for instance. I suppose this is because real men become fewer and fewer, and we are frightened, trying to create men.
( Doris Lessing )
[ The Golden Notebook ]
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