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Jill Johnston
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“It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.”
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“Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.”
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“Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.”
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“All women are lesbians except those who don't know it ...”
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“The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide.”
Jill Johnston, U.S. writer, cultural critic
(1929 - 2010)