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“You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.”
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“Here in their ugly, empty cages the monkeys were no more tropical than a collection of London rats or dirty park pigeons. They were degraded as in a slum.”
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“[On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle.”
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“America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today. ”
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“... hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.”
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“Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.”
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“When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.”
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“Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.”