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Quote by Kate Millett
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipula

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. – Kate Millett

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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics. – Kate Millett

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Politics
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Kate Millett
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard. – Kate Millett

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Morning
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I dont think Ill ever escape the fact that I dont belong anywhere in particular. Ive often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but thats a very romantic notion. Its a hideous country to go to in reality. – Hugo Weaving

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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but its not part of a sensible way of living. Its a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. – Jane Campion

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My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. Theyre incredibly romantic. – Georgina Chapman

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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler – I was the only one that lived to tell the story – so I called myself the romantic lead. – Sally Kellerman

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