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Carolyn Heilbrun

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Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
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Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature it is an occupational hazard.
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
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