When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.
The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.
To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep
... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.