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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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Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it...more

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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

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Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.I think we found this frightening.

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Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us as real girls, real flesh and blood,...more

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There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when they've got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemica...more

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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