A Quote by Jan Morris

The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself.

Jan Morris

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Jan Morris
English - Writer
Born: October 2, 1926

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