““Words? Not really. Mankind is a good word.” She set down her glass with a thump. “Or humankind. I’m afraid we’ve spent a lot of feminist energy on meaningless symbols rather than essential functions.””

—  Sheri S. Tepper

Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 10 (p. 170)

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