Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pain with patience, both as a condescendant contribution to supercilious compassion and as a proof of the eminence of their sense of worth. ("Prêt-à-penser" / "Ready-to-wear thinking")

Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.