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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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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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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.

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But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of ...more

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But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are.

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All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

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I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing beforehand. If there had still been portable mone...more

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She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been p...more