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Janet Flanner: By jove, no...

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By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

Source: Letter to Natalia Danesi Murray, 1944, Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend, 1985.
-- Janet Flanner, (Mar 13 1892-1978), US journalist; She wrote Letter From Paris for the New Yorker for Almost 50 Years. One of Few Women to Be Awarded French Legion of Honor.


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