“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
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“A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.”
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“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
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“Wat mij ook vaak opvalt, is de agressiviteit waarmee mensen hun zekerheden beschermen. Als ze 't zo zeker weten, wat kan ze dan schelen dat ik er anders over denk?”
― De porseleinkast
― De porseleinkast
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