Author: Paul Seabright

Cites

• Albert Cohen (2)
  • IN: The War of the Sexes (2012) Non-Fiction, Psychology, British
    EPIGRAPH: She must be soaping herself at this moment, he was thinking in the bath. Though he yearned to see her soon, he could not help feeling how ridiculous were these two human beings, at the same moment three kilometres apart, rubbing and scraping as though at so many dirty dishes, each in order to please the other, like actors preparing for a scene.
    FROM: Belle du Seigneur, (1968), Novel, Greece/ Switzerland
• A. K. Ramanujan (2)
  • IN: The War of the Sexes (2012) Non-Fiction, Psychology, British
    EPIGRAPH: In his country / spotted crabs / borin in their mother's death / grow up with crocodiles / that devour their young. / Why is he here now? / And why does he / take those women, / a jangle of gold bangles / as they make love / only to leave them?
    FROM: "What He Said" from Poems of Love and War, (1985), Poem, India
• William Empson (1)
  • IN: The War of the Sexes (2012) Non-Fiction, Psychology, British
    EPIGRAPH: No man is sure he does not need to climb. / It is not human to feel safely placed. / "A girl can't go on laughing all the time."
    FROM: "Reflection from Anita Loos", (1940), Poem, UK
• Sigmund Freud (1)
  • IN: The War of the Sexes (2012) Non-Fiction, Psychology, British
    EPIGRAPH: The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of reasearch into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
    FROM: letter to Marie Bonaparte, (1926), Letter, Austria
• Tancredo Neves (1)
  • IN: The War of the Sexes (2012) Non-Fiction, Psychology, British
    EPIGRAPH: I have never made a friend from whom I could not seperate, and I have never made an enemy whom I could not approach.
    FROM: president-elect of Brazil, (1985), Speech, Brazil
• Pierre de Ronsard (1)
  • IN: The War of the Sexes (2012) Non-Fiction, Psychology, British
    EPIGRAPH: Je suis soulfre et salpetre, vous netes que glace. (I am sulfur and saltperter, while you are ice.)
    FROM: NULL, (1578), NULL, France
• Jacques Brel (1)
  • IN: The War of the Sexes (2012) Non-Fiction, Psychology, British
    EPIGRAPH: Et plus le temps nous fait cortege / Et plus le temps nous fait tourment / Mais n'est-ce pas le pire piege / Que vivre en paix pour des amants? / Bien sur tu pleures un peu moins tot / Je me dechire un peu plus tard / Nous protegeons moins nos mysteres / On laisse moins faire le hasard / On se mefie du fil de l'eau / Mais c'est toujours la tendre guerre
    FROM: "La chanson des vieux amants", (1967), Song, Belgium