Alison Lurie - The War Between the Tates (1974)

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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

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Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

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You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

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