mystery quote: "Men like war...."

[Garson O'Toole]

Jonathan Lighter wrote
> 2,630 websites endorse the following words (more or less) by contemporary
> novelist Lucy Ellmann (usually misspelled):
>
> "Men like war; they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it
> with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood."
  ...
> The earliest allusion I can find is from 2001.

Google Books claims that a version of the quotation is in the
following 1996 compendium:

365 Women's Reflections on Men by Catherine M. Edmonson
http://books.google.com/books?id=w0pTnNwaheYC&q=menstruate#search_anchor

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