We each begin, probably, with a little bias towards our own sex; and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.
我们大概都先对自己的性别怀有一点偏心,再把各自生活圈中发生过的一切有利事例,都堆砌在这份偏心之上。
— Jane Austen · Persuasion (1817) —