"There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful."

Equality, Gender, Society, Boys

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"There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful."

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"Literature is analysis after the event."

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"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time."

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"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

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"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."

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"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."

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"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"

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