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“Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.” quote by Andrea Dworkin — Download Open image

“Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.”

Andrea Dworkin

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Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.

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