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"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."

"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."

"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."
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"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

"You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together."

"I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies."

"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."

"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."

"Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John."

"As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings."

"They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise."

"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."
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