Milan Kundera Quotes
The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise. Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man. Is that any way to talk to me?' It's the way I talk to whores.
Topics
Abuse
Coercion
Control
Dominance, Domination
Manners
Respect
Aggression
Misogyny, Anti-Female, Anti-Feminism
Assertiveness
Communication
Gender Roles, Gender Identity
Prostitution
Social Interaction
Way
Objectification
Disrespect
Disrespectful Behavior
Gender Dynamics
Restaurant Etiquette
Toxic Masculinity
Verbal Abuse
Citations
Kundera, Milan. Laughable Loves. Knopf, 1974, p. 81.
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Milan Kundera is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979. He received his Czech citizenship back in 2019. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".