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A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.

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These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...

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For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, storie...more

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Swahili storytellers believe that women are incorrigibly wicked, diabolically cunning and sexually insatiable; I hope this is true, for the sake of th...more

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By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.

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Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

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She was a Victorian girl; a girl of the days when men were hard and top-hatted and masculine and ruthless and girls were gentle and meek and did a gre...more

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A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.

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Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alon...more

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She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men ...more