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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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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them? – 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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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. – Kate Millett

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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that werent relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. – Walter Isaacson

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A mans ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings. – Jennifer Coolidge

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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. – Victor Hugo

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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. – Bill Griffith

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A rich man has no need of character. – Proverb

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