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21 " ...it is our animal nature to judge the weak more harshly, owing to how survival depends upon weeding these creatures out. "
― Suzanne Rindell , The Other Typist
22 " They said the typewriter would unsex us. One look at the device itself and you might understand how they - the self-appointed keepers of female virtue and morality, that is - might have reached such a conclusion. Your average typewriter, be it Underwood, Royal, Remington, or Corona, is a stern thing, full of gravity, its boxy angles coming straight to the point, with no trace of curvaceous tomfoolery or feminine whimsy. Add to that the sheer violence of its iron arms, thwacking away at the page with unforgiving force. Unforgiving. Yes; forgiving is not the typewriter's duty. "
23 " The appearance of one's innocence is a funny house of cards; you start by shifting the smallest thing, and before you know it the whole structure has come crashing down. "
24 " They said the typewriter would unsex us. "
25 " Only the very rich and the very poor enjoy sex with a careless, indifferent abandon....only those of us in the middle class are obliged to maintain an attitude of modesty and discretion when it comes to sex. "