Dia sudah terbiasa dengan tanggapan orang -orang padanya. Banyak dari mereka berasumsi bahwa ada pilihan kutub antara pernikahan dan pekerjaan dan bahwa semakin antusias dia telah memeluk pekerjaannya, semakin besar dia pasti menolak gagasan anak atau kemitraan pria. Elizabeth telah menyerah mencoba menjelaskan. Dia telah mengambil pekerjaan karena dia perlu hidup; Dia telah menemukan yang menarik dalam preferensi untuk yang membosankan; Dia telah mencoba melakukannya dengan baik daripada buruk. Dia tidak bisa melihat bagaimana salah satu dari tiga langkah logis ini menyiratkan penolakan kekerasan terhadap pria atau anak -anak.

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(She had grown accustomed to people's responses to her. Many of them assumed that there was a polar choice between marriage and work and that the more enthusiastically she had embraced her job, the more vigourously she must have rejected the idea of children or male partnership. Elizabeth had given up trying to explain. She had taken a job because she needed to live; she had found an interesting one in preference to a dull one; she had tried to do well rather than badly. She could not see how any of these three logical steps implied a violent rejection of men or children.)