“Don’t disagree with the men around you. They don’t want you to be smarter than them. They don’t want you to have opinions. You’ll make them intellectually uncomfortable. No one will want you if you’re like this.’ But being sexually fulfilled in a context that would lessen me intellectually? I didn’t want that,” Piper said definitively.”

“Don’t disagree with the men around you. They don’t want you to be smarter than them. They don’t want you to have opinions. You’ll make them intellectually uncomfortable. No one will want you if you’re like this.’ But being sexually fulfilled in a context that would lessen me intellectually? I didn’t want that,” Piper said definitively.”

— Linda Kay Klein