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What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing.

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Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

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He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefi...more

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I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle alo...more

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There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were ...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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Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

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It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

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This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

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I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of br...more

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This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It’s as if...more

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Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

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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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After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the ...more