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"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."
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"Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA."
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"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."
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