Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
Source: Middlemarch, bk. 6, ch. 58 (1871-72).
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880), English novelist; Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., Silas Marner, 1861.