"Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried."

Source : Elizabeth Zimmermann (2012). “Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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