Eva Figes
Eva Figes
Eva Figeswas an English author. Figes wrote novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 April 1932
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The much vaunted male logic isnt logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
husband children father
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?
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Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.
fashion strong queens
Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.
childhood needs sake
But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.
race males prejudice
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
eye looks gone
Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.