We are all of us, men and women both, the creatures of culture: We do and feel what our societies want us to do and feel, and the demands that they put upon us are not always either very consistent or very precisely correlated with biology.

Diana Trilling

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Topic

Culture Society and the individual

Author

Diana Trilling

Source

Female Biology in a Male Culture

Medium

Essay

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Writer

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United States

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Citation

Trilling, Diana. "Female Biology in a Male Culture." The Saturday Review, 10 Oct. 1970.

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A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

William Safire

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Truth and lies

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William Safire
Language
English
Time
1975 1970s 20th century
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Safire, William. Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House. Doubleday, 1975, prologue.