Woman

Excerpt from Woman
For years I have tried not to write this book.
Doubtless some easy-going wag will express his regret that I did not go on trying not to write it; but I do not mind the perfusorial wags. It is the exact truth that this book got itself written almost in spite of me. It came in a sort of inevitable way - riding down my pompous masculine convictions, prejudices, social habitudes. Going about the world, in man's light-minded way, I met many women and gradually I began to see there was something the matter with them. It made no difference who the woman was or what her way of life was; there was something the matter with the brawny woman pushing out the boats at Trondjem and with the little perfumed cat curled up in a Venetian boudoir. And one day I had word with a woman-advocate. It was in the Palais de Justice in Paris - there in the Hall of Lost Footsteps, as we strolled to and fro.
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