ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence
for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.
Abdomen, s. Templo del dios Estómago, al que rinden culto y sacrificio todos los hombres auténticos. Las mujeres sólo prestan a esta antigua fe un sentimiento vacilante. A veces ofician en su altar, de modo tibio e ineficaz, pero sin veneración real por la única deidad que
los hombres verdaderamente adoran. Si la mujer manejara a su gusto el mercado mundial, nuestra especie se volvería graminívora.
[Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist. ]
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