Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.

Famous Quotes / Barbara Ehrenreich

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Barbara Ehrenreich: "Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups."

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Barriers	Characteristic	Contrast	Conversation
Cultural	Discover	Discussions	Each
Even	Exchanged	Expect	Extended
Female	Foodgathering	Given	Groups
Guttural	Hunting	Intersex	Male
Minutes	Occasional	Other	Paleontologist
Perhaps	Rooted	Soon	Stretch
Thing	Utterances	Women

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Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups. - Barbara Ehrenreich