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• The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
• The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand…
• Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot…
• Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers…
• The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is…
• Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing…
• Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
• Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
• I avoid looking in the mirror.
• I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
• I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
• If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to…

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