'"I've read," I said recklessly, "that the future of American civilization is in the hands of the mothers. Do you think that is true?"
He said: "They are the best influence we have."
I could see that he believed it and that it made him happy to believe it. It consoled him and it gratified him and it exalted him and it humbled him to believe it. He felt better for believing it. Well, good luck to him. To me it seemed as fat-headed a generalisation as saying that the future of American civilization depended on the growth of banana-eating. But maybe it does. One needs to be a little light in the head to feel at home in this world. So maybe it is the light-headed generalisations that are the truest ones.'
from Men Dislike Women by Michael Arlen (Chapter VIII)
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