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