“I really am a good listener because you never can tell when you will pick up something useful—and all in the world any woman has to do to be considered “charming” by men is to listen while they talk.”

— Robert A. Heinlein , book Podkayne of Mars

Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 6 (p. 60)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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