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Why we women do it best (revenge, that is); AS SCIENTISTS CLAIM THAT HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A MAN SCORNED.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20060120
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Byline: EDWINA CURRIE

HEAVEN has no rage, like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned, wrote playwright William Congreve more than 300 years ago.

His words have long been believed to encapsulate perfectly a deeprooted female desire for exacting revenge - for making her enemies or those who've wronged her suffer.

But now there are claims that the whole idea is nonsense, and that men are far better at performing acts of revenge and enjoying them.

According to a new study, when a woman watches an enemy being hurt or punished, she feels a shiver ...

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