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- I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness…
- At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they…
- All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in…
- She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
- People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.
- There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule…
- There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt.…
- If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa…
- She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like…
- The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. Sometimes, when my hormones are…
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