"In America every woman has her set of……" — Cyril Connolly

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins,… - Cyril Connolly

"In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude."

— Cyril Connolly

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