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“It is not womens fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live mens lives and womens also. Which is precisely what has happened todayto women.”
—Selma James (b. 1930)
“When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations dont count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)
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