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“A clever girl is the most wonderful thing in all Creation you know: you must never forget that. People expect men to be clever. They expect girls to be stupid or at least silly, which very few girls really are, but most girls oblige them by acting like it. So you just go away and be as clever as ever you can: put their noses out of joint for them. It's the best thing you could possibly do, you and all the clever girls in this city and the world.”

Women Education Feminism Australia

Book:The Women in Black

Source: The Women in Black

“After the swim they argued no more; the blue Pacific had washed away all their irritation, as it generally does.”

Book:The Women in Black

Source: The Women in Black

“In Melbourne they have more need of cake,” said Stefan, “having more or less nothing else.”

Book:The Women in Black

Source: The Women in Black