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We got the
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Linde Lund's friend is an author and artist.We are going to publish the great poem during this week.
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The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
".
. .I realized why it is so much easier for a man to adjust himself to
new surroundings and people than for a woman. Men are so much less
demanding in friendship. A woman wants her friends to be perfect. She
sets a pattern, usually a reasonable facsimile of herself, lays a
friend out on this pattern and worries and prods at any little
qualities which do not coincide with her own image. She simply won't
be bothered with anything less than ninety per cent congruity, and will
accept the ninety per cent only if the other ten per cent is shaping
up nicely and promises accurate conformity within a short time.
Friends with glaring lumps or unsmoothable rough places are cast off
like ill-fitting garments, and even if this means that the woman has no
friends at all, she seems happier than with some imperfect being for
whom she would have to make allowances. A man has a friend,
period. He acquires this particular friend because they both like to
hunt ducks. The fact that the friend discourses entirely in
four-letter words, very seldom washes, chews tobacco and spits and
random, is drunk a good deal of the time and hates women, in no way
affects the friendship. If the man notices these flaws in the
perfection of his friend, he notices them casually as he does his
friend's height, the color of his eyes, the width of his shoulders; and
the friendship continues at an even temperature for years and years
and years."
sooooo much truth, it's killing me
not only do I love this book and this writer because she is real and honest, but also because she can be asolutely hilarious when writing about things that were really hard for her.
and.... she wrote some books that were part of my favorite list as a child... Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle anyone??
4 comments:
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Mandy said...
- Betty MacDonald has so many fans all over the world.
There was a Betty MacDonald Fan Club Meeting in Oslo.
I met Betty MacDonald fans from five continents. -
Matt said...
- i'm reading "onions in the stew" right now. loving it! she cracks me up.
i mentioned to my 83 yr old grandma the other day that i was reading a
book by someone named betty macdonald..."she was from seattle" she said.
"that's right! how did you know that?" i said. then she said, "my aunt
used to watch her kids." small world. love it.
by the way, your quote at the top of the page has been my favorite quote for years, but i never knew who wrote it. :)
-Emily (not Matt) ;) - Wolfgang Hampel - who interviewed Betty MacDonald's family and friends - is working on new Betty MacDonald biography.
