Vasily Grossman. Life and fate (№ 238164)

- I do not know, 'said she,' there's this female character is supposedly malleable, supposedly sacrificial. Such a woman will not say: "I sleep with a man because I want this," and she says: "it Is my duty, I feel sorry for him, I sacrificed myself". These women sleep, converge, diverge because they want them to, but they say differently: "It was a need commanded duty, conscience, I refused, I donated". And does she have donated, did what they wanted, and vile thing that these ladies genuinely do believe in his sacrifice. I can't stand it! And you know why? I often think that I am from this breed.