I was such a foolish girl - girls are foolish, Mr. Satterthwaite. They are so sure of themselves, so convinced they know best. People write and talk a lot about women's instinct. I don't believe, Mr. Satterthwaite, that there is any such thing. There doesn't seem to be anything that warns girls against a certain type of man. Nothing in themselves, I mean. Their parents warn them but that's no good - one doesn't believe. It seems dreadful to say so but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once her love will reform him.
[Agatha Christie, 1934]
Any comment, people?
I think some women just like to love a rogue...
ReplyDeleteAgatha Christie knew what she was talking about.
ReplyDeleteMy precious 20 year-old daughter shocked our Christmas assemblage when she opined that boys were so feminized that girls were practically begging their boyfriends to man up, and that not a few had gone to the dark side to find something more interesting, including getting smacked around.
Xlbrl - Dearieme takes me to task for the 'cheap fiction' and in this he is perhaps correct.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as you say, Agatha Christie knew what she was talking about. As a writer, she was passable - open fire, cold night, reading matter - but as a student of human psychology, she was superb and I confess that quite a few of my ideas stem from something she wrote.
As you wrote about your daughter, Christie can be relevant, not in all details and hers is a broad brush stroke but food for thought nonetheless.
Plus she was a woman.
Cherie - they do and not just some. I'd venture to say, to varying degrees - all.
"Dearieme takes me to task for the 'cheap fiction'": since the allusion was to the ditties of Mr Noel Coward, you might consider whether praise was intended.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Dearieme; I doff my cap and concede there's been a certain overreaction on the part of Hob. He's had a few things on the mind today.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bad boy!
ReplyDeleteOooh, my first brush then with gay attraction if you're a bad boy.
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