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‘Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.’
Is from The Picture of Dorian Gray. The context here isn't particularly enlightening, it just seems that Wilde is really saying women are passive aggressive long before that term was coined. Sibyl Vane's brother and mother are talking on the eve of his departure to Australia. Mrs Vane is described:
For some months past she had felt ill at ease when she was alone with this rough, stern son of hers. Her shallow secret nature was troubled when their eyes met. She used to wonder if he suspected anything. The silence, for he made no other observation, became intolerable to her. She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. "I hope you will be contented, James, with your sea-faring life," she said. "You must remember that it is your own choice....
‘Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.’
Is from The Picture of Dorian Gray. The context here isn't particularly enlightening, it just seems that Wilde is really saying women are passive aggressive long before that term was coined. Sibyl Vane's brother and mother are talking on the eve of his departure to Australia. Mrs Vane is described:
For some months past she had felt ill at ease when she was alone with this rough, stern son of hers. Her shallow secret nature was troubled when their eyes met. She used to wonder if he suspected anything. The silence, for he made no other observation, became intolerable to her. She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. "I hope you will be contented, James, with your sea-faring life," she said. "You must remember that it is your own choice....
