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Old 01-05-2016, 05:31 PM   #2899
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Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.
Ian Fleming's James Bond was a lot of things; sensitive feminist was not one of them. Here are two quotes from his first appearance in the novel Casino Royale in 1952 that would hard to imagine being written in this hopefully more enlightened age:

• As he drove, whipping the car faster and faster through the night, with the other half of his mind he cursed Vesper, and M for having sent her on the job. This was just what he had been afraid of. These blithering women who thought they could do a man’s work. Why the hell couldn’t they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men’s work to the men.

• Women were for recreation. On a job, they got in the way and fogged things up with sex and hurt feelings and all the emotional baggage they carried around.

— Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964); English author, journalist, and naval intelligence officer.
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