““You know, Ellie, you play this game awfully well—for a girl.”
“Thank you too much.”
“No, I mean it. I suppose girls are probably as intelligent as men, but most of them don’t act like it. I think it’s because they don’t have to. If a girl is pretty, she doesn’t have to think.””

—  Robert A. Heinlein , book Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 19, “A Friend in Need” (p. 210)

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