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| 1 | 100 | View more quotes about surely">Surely only a terrible woman, a low woman, a shameful, wicked, worthless woman, a reproach to her entire sex, one with depths and needs antedating her century, one with needs not indexed to political orthodoxies, one with needs older and deeper, and more real and profound, more ancient and marvelous than those dictated to her by intellectual aberrations antithetical to biology, truth, history and time. |
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| 1 | 97 | It was the sort of garment a man might throw to a woman to wear, amused to see her in it. |
| 1 | 98 | What sort of woman, of her own free will, would put on such a garment? Surely no real woman. |
| 1 | 99 | It was too feminine. |
| 1 | 100 | Surely only a terrible woman, a low woman, a shameful, wicked, worthless woman, a reproach to her entire sex, one with depths and needs antedating her century, one with needs not indexed to political orthodoxies, one with needs older and deeper, and more real and profound, more ancient and marvelous than those dictated to her by intellectual aberrations antithetical to biology, truth, history and time. |
| 1 | 101 | I put my hand before my mouth, frightened. |
| 1 | 102 | I stood there, regarding myself, then, shamed, and humbled and thrilled. |
| 1 | 103 | I knew then it was I in the mirror, and none other. |