The back-copy writer for Margaret St Clair's Sign of the Labrys, published by Corgi in 1963, seems to be finding it genuinely difficult to believe that women can write SF.
Yes, women are closer to the primitive than men: they know how to make scrolls from bear skins and typewriters from flint. But they keep getting distracted by pregnancy and trips to the hair salon and the pounding of blood in their temples as the ancient tides pull at them, driving them to perform their ageless immemorial rites on that copywriter...
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Yes, women are closer to the primitive than men: they know how to make scrolls from bear skins and typewriters from flint. But they keep getting distracted by pregnancy and trips to the hair salon and the pounding of blood in their temples as the ancient tides pull at them, driving them to perform their ageless immemorial rites on that copywriter...
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