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Harmless erotic fantasies are terrific, it’s the lousy ones you have to look out for—the harmful, destructive, morbid erotic fixations—real sadism, killing, blood-letting, torturing where the pleasure is in the victim’s actual pain, etc. Those are 100 per cent bad and I won’t have any part of them.

— William Moulton Marston

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The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women in all fields of human activity.

Tolerant people are the happiest, so why not get rid of prejudices that hold you back?

Your Life What are your prejudices? (1939)

Not even the church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion picture company.

A motion picture must be true to life. If a picture portrays a false emotion it train people seeing it to react abnormally.

Appetite emotion must first, last and always be adapted to love.

The Emotions of Normal People (1928)

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