“[Y]ou've got to put up a show of being tough nowadays, especially if you're a girl, or else they'd all be walking over you with nailed boots. They do that anyhow, in the long run, if you're a woman.”

— J.B. Priestley

Faraway (1932)
Source: Terry (Patricia Teresa) Riley in Ch. 5. 3

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English writer 1894–1984

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