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America Quote by Eve Ensler

“There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.” quote by Eve Ensler — Download Open image

“There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.”

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I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

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The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

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stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

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I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

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America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,…

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I'm gonna bring America together.

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

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