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For the wound of poverty to be soothed, it's inadequate to undo the material disadvantage inflicted by the original blow: it is also necessary to reach out and lead the wounded person back into the human family.

— John Waters Power and poverty: two extremes of existence going head to head (2014)

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What is really happening is the reinvention of family not to favour either women or men but to promote new and radical models of family as remote as, so to speak, conceivable from the normative, natural model. And the more remote, the more likely to be preferred.

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