This is the rule, and there is no way to free oneself of it: as soon as the thought has arisen, it must be followed to the very end.
“I will believe that the battle of feminism is over, and that the female has reached a position of equality with the male, when I hear that a country has allowed itself to be turned upside-down and led to the brink of war by its passion for a totally bald woman writer.”
Rebecca West | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon