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Women … do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force of their supportiveness to themselves and to each other—but never to the point of self-sacrifice.

— Phyllis Chesler Women and Madness (1972)

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Source: Women and Madness (2005), p. 348, and see Women and Madness (1972), p. 301 (similar text).
Work: Women and Madness, 1972
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