“Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein , book Friday

Source: Friday (1983), Ch. XXI, p. 214

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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