People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart - but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nice handwriting and a neat locker and to do her homework on time. They don't expect ideas or much in the way of real thought.
Intelligence, Feminism
If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.
Success, Fiction
He had a bad habit of initially zeroing in on one or two things he liked about every new girl he found himself interested in, as if to justify his attraction.
Love, Attraction, Fiction
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