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bothered about that. Some reporter asked me once if I didn't know that men laughed at women. I said, “Why certainly I know they laugh at women.”

“Doesn't that make you angry?”

I said, “No, not particularly, because it isn't anything like women laugh at men.”

He said, “What?”

I said, “Didn't you know that all women laugh about all men. No two women ever get together really that they don't have some little joke to pass between them about the inadequacies of men, or the stupidity of men, or the self-deceit of men, or the puffed-upness of men.”

I told him then about a woman I know who was married to an Irishman. She had this deep plot in her life. She said she was going to write a book and the name of the book was going to be Himself, because she'd been married to an Irishman and God knows there was nothing like that! They said, “In what respect is this true, Eleanor?” She began to cite examples and every woman in the room said, “Well, that's just like my husband and he isn't Irish!” So they just agreed that “Himself” is just typical.

There are the jokes that women make about men and it's perfectly fair game, I think, for the sexes to make fun of each other. God knows there's no reason why they shouldn't. It's an amiable dispute. But I knew I would be quite