I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men-at least they can cry.

Jean Rhys

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Topic

Crying Men and women Masculinity

Author

Jean Rhys

Source

Good Morning, Midnight

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Dominica Caribbean

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Original Citation

Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. Constable Press, 1939.

Current Citation

Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

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