"The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency."

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"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

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