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“What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.

"Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: abilities, academia, academic-degrees, achievements, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, intellectual-success, intelligence, misogyny, prejudice, skills, stereotypes, women

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