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“It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.”
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“Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.”
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“South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.'”
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“... the difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.”
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“... it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.”
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“It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?”
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“... vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers.”
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“Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.”