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"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."
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"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
"In some ways the operation of the feminine stereotype is so obvious and for many women entirely unattainable, that it can be easily reacted against. It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along. Of course, a woman who goes her own way will find her conditioning is ineradicable, but she at least can recognize its operation and choose to counteract it, whereas a man might find that he was being more subtly deluded."
"When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves."
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"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."
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"A woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber."
"Don't beg anyone for any form of gratification, be it mental, psychological or sexual, for resorting to such practices in itself is an insult to your existence. Celebrate in your own grandeur with dignity!"
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