Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 225.
“Natural selection—the dying out of the poorly equipped—goes on day in and day out, inexorable and automatic. It is as tireless, as inescapable, as entropy.”
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Beyond This Horizon
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 134
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