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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions...more

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Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

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I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

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Whatever it was, she knew she would not be blamed for it, she was blameless. But what use had that been to her in the past, to be blameless? So at the...more

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Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherin...more

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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces on the edges of print.

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My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.

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I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.

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Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber gloves with only one finger, and every time she sa...more

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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would upset him. It is well known that women can deal with...more

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To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself--his extra s...more

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He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was bu...more

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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.