"Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender."

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Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.

— Edna O'Brien