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Freya Stark: The great and...

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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Source: The Valleys of the Assassins, ch. 2, 1934.
-- Freya Stark, (Jan 31 1893-1993), French-English explorer, travel writer; She marched alone into the Middle East from Persia to Yemen, discovering lost cities and creating an anti-Nazi intelligence system along the way.


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