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"They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that."
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"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."

"Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being."

"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."

"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power."

"As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history."

"What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God."

"What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?"

"The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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