Roger Rosenblatt Quotes
Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.
Rosenblatt, Roger. The Man in the Water: Essays and Commentaries. Random House, 1994.
She asserts that men tend to be more willing to take risks especially when the consequences will fall on others.
The female judges were much less prone to interrpting their colleages than the male judges. Amd when the male judges interruption a disproprtionate proprtion of the intereuptions of the other judges were of the female judges.
Roger Rosenblatt (born 1940) is an American memoirist, essayist, and novelist. He was a long-time essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour. He is currently the Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University.