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From Amazon.com: A sparkling and profound consideration of women and power: the power of intellect, of money, of integrity, and of loyalty, love and self-respect. “If I have a bias it is in my suspicion that women are intellectually and intuitively superior to men,” writes Christopher Gates, the elegant, sharp-tongued narrator of this book. “But,” he adds, “I certainly never thought they were ‘nicer.’ And I very much doubt that anyone could think so who was raised, as I was, in a society in which the female had so many more privileges than the male.” And so he begins to describe the twelve…
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3 editions- Other · English · 1985Weidenfeld and Nicolson · 9780297784616
- Other · English · 1984Thorndike Press · 293 pages · 9780896215580
- Other · English · 1984Houghton Mifflin · 212 pages · 9780395361382
FictionGayLarge type booksNew york (n.y.), fictionFiction, historical, general