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America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

— Anna Quindlen

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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

Here is the real domino theory: Gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

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