We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
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Make it impossible for the authority to operate within the system as usual . . . making it impossible for him simply to strike back without thought and with all his strength.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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