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Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it.

Mina Loy

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Mina Loy
Age: 83 †
Born: 1882
Born: December 27
Died: 1966
Died: September 25
Actor
Artist
Novelist
Painter
Playwright
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Hampstead Village
Mina Lowy
Mina Gertrude Loy
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