Baley said, “It is hard to explain. Jezebel is a rare name. It belonged once to a woman of very bad reputation. My wife treasured that fact. It gave her a vicarious feeling of wickedness and compensated for a life that was uniformly proper.” “Why should a law-abiding woman wish to feel wicked?” Baley almost smiled. “Women are women, Daneel.
This passage sums up entirely how Asimov writes about women, making them wholly two-dimensional and pointless plot devices. Sigh.
