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| 7 | 138 | View more quotes about similarly">Similarly, she learned that the skills of needlework of various sorts were indeed skills, and not at all easy to acquire. |
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| 7 | 135 | Cooking, here, involved cooking, actually, and not, for example, the simple heating of tasteless materials extracted from colorful packages. |
| 7 | 136 | She discovered that cooking was an art, and required mastery, as any other art. |
| 7 | 137 | She had never thought of it in that fashion before. |
| 7 | 138 | Similarly, she learned that the skills of needlework of various sorts were indeed skills, and not at all easy to acquire. |
| 7 | 139 | How often her instructrices despaired of her, as being ignorant, stupid and hopelessly inept. |
| 7 | 140 | Finally, in misery, in tears, she had denounced them as low, vulgar, stupid women, far beneath her, women who, unlike herself, might aspire to labors no higher than the menial and servile, labors unfit for such as she, an educated, highly intelligent woman, a woman important on her own world. |
| 7 | 141 | "Ignorant, pretentious barbarian!" cried one of the instructrices, angrily. |