The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
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One cannot make up stories one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism in both, the whole point is choice.
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