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| 2 | 150 | She had sensed, you see, that their intentions View more quotes about might">might have been physical, at least in part, and thus to be resisted and deplored. |
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| 2 | 147 | She feared men, for no reason she clearly understood, and distanced herself from them. |
| 2 | 148 | When younger she had repelled the occasional advances of men, partly by habit, partly by disposition, sometimes because of a sense of the inferiority of the sort of men, professed male feminists, for example, who were most likely to approach her, plaintively assuring her of their profound sense of guilt for their maleness and their wholehearted support for her ideological commitments. |
| 2 | 149 | And she was terrified by virile men, but few of them had seemed to find her of any interest; some such, who might have found her of interest, she had fled from in a sense, discouraging them, treating them with contempt, trying to chill and demean them. |
| 2 | 150 | She had sensed, you see, that their intentions might have been physical, at least in part, and thus to be resisted and deplored. |
| 2 | 151 | It was rather as though, if they were interested in her as a woman, their intentions could not be honorable, and she rejected, and feared, them; and if they were such that she had little doubt of the honorableness of their intentions, she had found them inferior, despicable, repulsive, hypocritical and boring. |
| 2 | 152 | She had, through the years, thus, dutifully preserved the independence and integrity of her personness. |
| 2 | 153 | As her body grew older, and began to dry, and wither, and tire, and began to regard her ever more reproachfully, and sadly, in the mirror, and she went through her change of life, which had been a terrible and troubling time for her, in her loneliness, and in her lack of love and children, she remained aloof, severe, unsexual, professional, virginal. |