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Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?
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I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
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Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.
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My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
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On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
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In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to "What turns me on is erotic; what turns you on is pornographic."
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
December 14, 1941
Died:
November 9, 2006
(aged 64)
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