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“‘I can tell you’re admiring my febrility. I know it’s appealing, I pracise at it; every woman loves an invalid. I bring out the Florence Nightingale in them. But be careful.’ He was looking at me now, cunningly, sideways. ‘You might do something destructive: hunger is more basic than love. Florence Nightingale was a cannibal, you know.’”
Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman p.120