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Our deadliest susceptibility is conformity, and our deadliest virtue is putting up with things as they are.

I should have thought practically anybody could be bedworthy, if she put her mind to it - I mean, even if she hadn't much mind to put.

Why is it that mothers still think it so much more respectable to be bedworthy than brainy? I mean, you'd expect it to be the other way round.

Well, being just a woman and nothing else does strike me as one of the dead-end jobs, Miss Taplow. I mean, you can't get any promotion in it, can you? - well, not unless you take it up as a courtesan, or something...