sodomyandunpleasantaccents:“A man once asked me … how I managed in my books towrite such natural con
sodomyandunpleasantaccents:“A man once asked me … how I managed in my books towrite such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. WasI, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends?I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically neverseen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five.“Well,” said the man, “I shouldn’t have expected a woman(meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing.” I replied that Ihad coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far aspossible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed tosurprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over.One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men,when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.” ― Dorothy L. Sayers,Are Women Human? Astuteand Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society -- source link