“And sometimes I think myself sensible, and sometimes I accuse myself of cowardice. In fact I am defenseless because I have never supposed I had any rights. I expect a lot of the people I love - too much, perhaps. I expect a lot, and I even ask for it. But I do not know how to insist.”
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“...around the women who appear on the show I often feel like the only manatee at Mermaid Lagoon. That's in physical terms, of course. Personality wise I am much smaller, more like a mouse looking through its hiding place at all the bendy, confident cats licking their own genitals.”
― Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth
― Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth
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