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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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