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Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times.

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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

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A lot of people call you a feminist painter.""What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and yo...more

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They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their earl...more

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You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me...more

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Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.

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Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Th...more

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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

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He was a dork, a dink, a dong… Why should the male member be used as a term of abuse? No man hated his own dorkdinkdong, quite the opposite. But maybe...more

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From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing her other self, and runs her fingertip around the c...more

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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretiv...more

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But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.Maybe none of th...more

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By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I w...more

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I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies

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... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.