Claire Keegan

When she went to sit down with her own plate, his brother had reached out and quickly pulled the chair from under her, and she had fallen backwards onto the floor.

She must have been sixty, near sixty years of age at that time, as she had married late.

but his father had laughed.

All three of them had laughed heartily and had kept on laughing while she picked the pancakes and the pieces of the broken plate up off the floor."

It's almost like opening a door and looking in but closing it rather than going into the room.

He's just not generous and a lack of generosity seems to ruin everything.

I don't know anybody who's successful who isn't generous.

Yeah.

People, I think, mistake success sometimes for, you know, you take as much as possible and give as little as possible.

And the opposite, in fact, is true.

It is impossible to shine without generosity.

But he also doesn't have the skill, because he grew up in misogynistic Ireland, he also doesn't have the skill to do so, the skills to do so.

Mm.

Because it ruined things for men as well as women, you know, in the classroom, in their sex lives, the sensualities of life.

I can't think of any area of life where men also didn't suffer from the loss of experiences they could have had.

Mm.

Had they grown up respectful towards women and girls?

Yeah.

The world isn't like girls.

Yes, I think so too.