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| 1 | 383 | At View more quotes about best">best it was an unimportant contingency, irrelevant to important matters such as advancements, politics, and promotions, a contingency to be ignored, if not deplored, as much as possible, saving perhaps as it might be politically utilized to obtain unearned advantages. |
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| 1 | 380 | A hundred transparent, inhibitory wrappings swathed her about, constricting her; a culture's tendrils and trammels had been tightened about her; she had been shaped by frowns, images, propounded exemplars, small remarks, sneers, customs, and scoldings for years, subtly taught, by a multitude of cultural stratagems of which she was scarcely aware, to belittle and discount, if not despise, the very substance of herself, the very core of her being. |
| 1 | 381 | She had been taught that her femaleness was a matter of historical idiosyncrasy, a societal convention, a social construction, and one perhaps somewhat regrettable. |
| 1 | 382 | It was to be understood as a fabrication peculiar to a locality, a particular place and period, something of no more than transitory significance. |
| 1 | 383 | At best it was an unimportant contingency, irrelevant to important matters such as advancements, politics, and promotions, a contingency to be ignored, if not deplored, as much as possible, saving perhaps as it might be politically utilized to obtain unearned advantages. |
| 1 | 384 | And now she was naked in a container. |
| 1 | 385 | What a simple refutation of absurdity is nudity. |
| 1 | 386 | The girl from the Steel Worlds, and the girl from England, as indicated, had not been selected at random. |