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  • What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

    Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.9, HarperCollins UK