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The object of liberty is to give men and women a chance to be their best selves. That is its first and last purpose.
Dorothy Thompson Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state.
A man can be called assertive if he launches World War Three. A woman can be called assertive if she puts you on hold.
Topologically, men and women are identical. Some things are just larger and more developed in one than the other and positioned differently.
I will not admit that a woman can draw like that.
For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women’s cosmic power.
Many things that erupt in rape or violence, or battery and so on, are happening when a woman is pushing that button of fear and dependency.
Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.
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