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Vardeman

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Vardeman’s Quotes

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: feminism

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“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

854 likes

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

tags: life

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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