# Quote — Gregory Benford, Artifact

> It was one thing to be instantly attracted to a woman, and another to like her independence, the way she took no notice of what he thought of her, one way or the other. She was indeed a modern woman—not aggressive, yet not submissive. A self-possessed apartness, a lack of cling...
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> Yes, that was what held his attention: her reserve. The promise of depths you could not guess merely by seeing her in a swimsuit.

- Author: [Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md)
- Book: [Artifact](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact.md)
- Page: 80
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford#Artifact_(1985)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/it-was-one

## More from this book

> This was what never failed to stir her—the unfathomable gulf between today’s thinking and the way the ancients thought. They were truly alien, not merely innocent agrarians with a foolish faith.

p. 246 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/this-was-what.md)

> Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

p. 228 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/just-because-somethings.md)

> Still, Claire hated Charlotte Brontë’s comment that she would have given all her talent to be beautiful. That condemned you always to play somebody else’s game—and, when your looks failed—finally to lose.

p. 245 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/still-claire-hated.md)