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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.

— Sally Kempton

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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.

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

Cutting Loose (1970)

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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