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Bee Wilson

  • The idea of the mistress is fundamentally embarrassing. ... It is not just the secrecy and deception, it is the playing of a preordained role, which is based on the assumption that what women want is to be adored and showered with gifts and that what men want is to have an eternally available playmate while not giving freely of themselves. It is not very flattering to either sex.

    • Bee Wilson,
    • in London Review of Books ()

Bee Wilson, English food writer, historian

(1974)

Full name: Beatrice Dorothy Wilson.