Avoiding Extremes

“Look—the libertarian men can be roughly clustered into two groups. There are the party commandos who are largely interested in women and pot and with no one telling them what to do, and then there are all the economics majors who were Murray Rothbard nerds. I had no interest in being the 500th woman for any of the first group, and even less interested in being the first woman for any of the second.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 96

And Without Any Insurance Coverage for That

“Some women are just plain gorgeous, and they don’t really know how to turn it off, but Stephanie was not like that. She was entirely secure without any make-up, and was routinely described as ‘that pretty girl,’ but whenever she decided to put on the Ritz, the effect was to summon up an oceanic goddess of beauty de profundis. And if she smiled at anything male while done up like that, he would probably be in the ICU for at least a couple of days.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 9