When a woman goes to a good deal of trouble to make herself look nice, it's often because she gets a secret pleasure out of annoying another member of her sex. One thing woman can do that we men can't is to kiss a woman friend and at the same time stick a needle into her. It's quite hopeless to want to reform women in this respect. Better ignore these little failings! If it makes them happy, well and good. It's an infinitely preferable occupation for a woman than dabbling in metaphysics!

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "When a woman goes to a good deal of trouble to make herself look nice, it's often because she gets a secret pleasure out of annoying another member of her sex. One thing woman can do that we men can't is to kiss a woman friend and at the same time stick a needle into her. It's quite hopeless to want to reform women in this respect. Better ignore these little failings! If it makes them happy, well and good. It's an infinitely preferable occupation for a woman than dabbling in metaphysics!" in the context of "Adolf Hitler, in Henry Picker (ed.) Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier, 2nd ed. (1965), p. 188. Cited in Werner Maser (tr. Peter and Betty Ross), Hitler (1973), ch. 6" to mean that wisdom is timeless.