Notoriously, women tolerate qualities in a lover--moodiness, selfishness, unreliability, brutality--they would never countenance in a husband, in return for excitement, and infusion of intense feeling. Perversity is the muse of modern literature. Today the house of fiction is full of mad lovers, gleeful rapists, castrated sons--but very few husbands.
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1969
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1969
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