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“Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.” quote by Naomi Wolf — Download Open image

“Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.”

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To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.

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