All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
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Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
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English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
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Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
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I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
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The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
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The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
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The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
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The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
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Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.
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Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
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