“And you think they’ll let you,” said Machine. It was a flat, sad statement.
“No,” she said, “but nobody ever let me do anything in my life before and I never let that stop me.”

—  Joanna Russ

Source: Fiction, Picnic on Paradise (1968), p. 119

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