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"The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men."
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"Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others."
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"It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the floor near my father's desk. A library is of course a real place, but it is also an unreal one. What happens there is mostly silent. I think I've always liked the whispering aspect of libraries, the hushing librarians and my feeling of solitude among many."
"There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help."
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