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What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.
Grace Paley
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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
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