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“... the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.”
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“I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.”
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“She respected Americans: they were not like the English, who, under a surface of annoying moroseness of manner, were notoriously timid and easy to turn round your finger.”
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“You never conquer a mountain. / You stand on the summit a few moments, / Then the wind blows your footprints away.”
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“Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different — only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?”
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“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
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“... the long procession of girls ... was like a funeral and a caravan mixed, — 'as cheerful as hearses at both ends, and wild beasts in the middle.'”
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“The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life ...”