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Reasonable Creatures (1994)
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For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.
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For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.
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We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.
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Funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.
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We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.
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Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
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October 14, 1949
(age 75)
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