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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Wealth
Playing
Accruing
Anyone
Excel
Fighting
Respects
Power
Sexuality
Everything
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Men
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Ambition

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Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.
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To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.
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