Quotation by

Orson Welles

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

Women

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Orson Welles suggests that the motivation behind human progress and the creation of civilization was to attract and impress women. He implies that without the influence of women, humans might have remained primitive and undeveloped.

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