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found that girls are trained in seven cultural habits of non-existence. These are deny the body; be quiet; please others; deny your sexuality; isolate yourself; have no individual identity; and be dependent.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
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“Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.”
― Romeo and Juliet
― Romeo and Juliet
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