'You know perfectly well that women can and do - or rather did - handle the most complicated and delicate… — John Wyndham
'You know perfectly well that women can and do - or rather did - handle the most complicated and delicate machines when they took the trouble to understand them. What generally happens is that they're too lazy to take the trouble unless they have to.'
p. 175Source: Wikiquote · CC BY-SA 4.0
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