A Woman’s Backing/ D. H. Lawrence

    Now I see how inordinately strong the craving for self-assertion and success is in men. It is enormously overdeveloped. All our individuality has run that way. And of course men like you think you’ll get through better with a woman’s backing. That’s why you’re so jealous. That’s what sex is to you . . . […]

It Takes More Than Brains/ F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Adams was probably a sourbelly,” said Stahr. “He wanted to be head man himself, but he didn’t have the judgment or else the character.” “He had brains,” said Wylie rather tartly. “It takes more than brains. You writers and artists poop out and get all mixed up, and somebody has to come in and straighten […]