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Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

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Loretta Chase
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 2
Writer
the United States of America
Men
Planets
Moon
Stay
Moons
Around
Revolving
Women
Orbit
Littles
Quietly
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