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“Expanding / beyond / what / we / know / we / can / be.”
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“Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own homes.”
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“Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.”
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“Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids, happy and excited; the father of the bride, proud; and the bride, demure. If the bridegroom feels doubtful, the bridesmaids, sulky, the father, worried, and the bride, blasé, nobody wants to know.”
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“Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?”
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“... there are few souls great and gentle enough not to want to oppress when they know themselves to be the stronger.”
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“Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...”
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“It might have happened sooner had I had a room of my own and fewer children, but somehow I doubt it. For as I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.”