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“the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
tags: oppressed, oppression, oppressor, patriarchal, patriarchal-culture, patriarchal-society, patriarchy
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