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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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