There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Mother and Son · 1955

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Gender relations Men and women

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1955

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Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Mother and Son. Victor Gollancz/Julian Messner, 1955, ch. 10.

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