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“What did it matter where she came from, or whose child she was, when love was dancing in her veins?”
― Summer
― Summer
“One inheritance of living under the male gaze for centuries is that heterosexual women often look at other women the way a man would.”
― Three Women
― Three Women
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― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
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― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
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― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
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