"I think 99% of women’s lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the follows the technology, it doesn’t precede it. The complaints may precede it, but the change follows. So I think that women who are are not as in touch with reality as they ought to be, because technology makes our lives possible. I certainly wouldn’t want to live in any earlier time, speaking as a woman. I would be dead several times over by now."
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, as quoted by David Barr Kirtley, host of the The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, in: (This interview was originally on Wired.com’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.)
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