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It is remarkable, I thought, [...] the transformation that a fixed income operates in people's character. [...] I don't need to hate any man; it can't hurt me. I don't need to flatter any man; has absolutely nothing to give me. I imperceptibly adopted a new attitude towards the other half of the human race. It was absurd to blame a class or a sex as a whole. Large masses of people are never responsible for what they do. [...] I had #started to think# mastered the first great lesson, writing like a woman; but as a woman who has forgotten that she is, so that her pages were full of that curious sexual quality that is only acquired when sex is not unconscious of itself.