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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
Diarist
Poet
Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Women
Necessity
Always
However
Men
Concerned
Difference
Supplying
Realizing
Mothering
Differences
Eternally
Understanding
Tender
Faith
Feeding

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