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The Look

by Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)

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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

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“Men don’t think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

tags: feminism, men, women

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“They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

tags: banned-books

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“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

tags: life, living, philosophy, women

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“For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?”
― D.H. Lawrence

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