Poor little whatsername, trapped in the works and dark machinations of that toughest survivor of the Middle Ages, the university, ground in the mills of assistantships, grants, competitions, examinations, dissertations, all set up to separate the men from the boys and both from the rest of the world, she wouldn’t have time for years yet to look up, to look out, to learn that there were such bare, airy places as the place where Rita Inman lived.

— The Unreal and the Real Volume 1: Volume 1: Where on Earth (Unreal & the Real Vol 1) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Page 207 - 208)