"By god, D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?"
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Stella Gibbons
Stella Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer.
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