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Jeg ble en gang spurt om hvorfor kvinner ikke gambler like mye som menn, og ga det fornuftige svaret at vi ikke har like mye penger. Det var et korrekt, men ufullstendig svar. I virkeligheten blir kvinners spilletrang helt og holdent tilfredsstilt gjennom ekteskapet.
Gloria Steinem
Kilde
Fra artikkelen NNight Thoughts of a Media-Watcher, Ms. (New York, november 1981).
Engelsk
Someone asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.