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Women's Liberation is finally only personal. It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

— Sally Kempton Cutting Loose (1970)

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It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Before It's Too Late: Helping Women in Controlling or Abusive Relationships (1995)

We can care about things without clinging to them.

When you give up partnership relationships you also give up a certain kind of intimacy. But you gain a lot of freedom, and you also experience a wider, less exclusive form of love.

Writing about Cutting Loose, quoted in Sara Davidson article

Cutting Loose (1970)

I knew the writing came from the place that’s the closest you can get to truth. But the downside was, I became a character in a public story that resembled mine but was a huge oversimplification of a complex life.

Cutting Loose (1970)

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