Train of Thought

Something that fascinated me about this last chapter was Lucy's way of thinking. On page 142 her thoughts go in two very different directions. At first she is talking about Mariah and she cannot comprehend why she does not understand that, "everybody knew that men have no morals, that they do not know how to behave, that they do not know how to treat other people." She says this as if it were a scientifically proven statement.
THEN later on in the same paragraph (train of thought) she says, "And if I were to tell it to her she would only show me a book she had somewhere which contradicted everything I said--a book most likely written by a woman who understood absolutely nothing" (142). When she says this it makes me think that she doesn't think very highly of the women she has come to know in America. To her they must be ignorant and not know simple fact of life like the fact that men have no morals and are likely to leave their wives.
This also reminded me of the part in A Room of One's Own when the narrator is looking at the stacks of books written about women and how they are all written by men who clearly don't know anything really about women. This is more backwards though when Lucy is saying how women write books about men and they don't understand how men are naturally born without morals.