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| 7 | 140 | Finally, in View more quotes about misery">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. |
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| 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. |
| 7 | 142 | Then to her consternation she was seized by her other two instructrices and dragged to the side of the room, where she was thrown down, on her back. |
| 7 | 143 | There was a low, horizontal wooden bar there, raised some six inches above the floor, by means of metal mounts at each end. |