My nemesis is a student at another university. She has not always been my nemesis. We were friends until I realized that she was not who she purported to be. Her interests had been systematically poached from the people around her. Talking to her always felt like an interrogation from a particularly insecure detective.

Real feminists know that empowerment comes from defining the breadth of your own animus

She mined me constantly for pointers on speed-reading and language-learning.