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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, w

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anaïs Nin

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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. – Anaïs Nin

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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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It starts when you sink in his arms and ends with your arms in his sink. – Author Unknown

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I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. – Gloria Steinem

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Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. – Lois Wyse

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