One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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