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Men, Without Women

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.”

― Mark Twain

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Anaïs Nin

“I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.”

― Anaïs Nin

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”

― Anaïs Nin

“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…

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Dying

“The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.”

— Anaïs Nin

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Celebrate or Lose It "People of our time are losing the power...

Celebrate or Lose It

"People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.

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Slaughtering our Finest Impulses "Every day we slaughter our...

Slaughtering our Finest Impulses

"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty.

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It Doesn't Work

It doesn't work to talk about Equality, and then not allow the other a voice.

Emma is right, the term Feminism no longer popularly means what it meant before the twisting effects of the last few decades. In her speech she said, just before announcing HeForShe at the end of her speech, that "We are struggling for a uniting word..." I didn't really get that until today. That is the only trouble with Emma's speech. It is dense. She doesn't waist words.