“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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“Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.”
― Woman at Point Zero
― Woman at Point Zero
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.”
― Woman at Point Zero
― Woman at Point Zero
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