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| 7 | 355 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed, for years I had been taught to ignore my needs, to minimize them, to conceal them, to suppress them, even deny them. |
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| 7 | 352 | Certainly I was taught to suspect and fear certain embarrassing suspicions and promptings. |
| 7 | 353 | Such were not suitable for one of my sex and class. |
| 7 | 354 | These suspicions and promptings, such thoughts, were not only incompatible with my dignity and self-respect, but incompatible with the conventions and proprieties in terms of which my life was to be managed. |
| 7 | 355 | Indeed, for years I had been taught to ignore my needs, to minimize them, to conceal them, to suppress them, even deny them. |
| 7 | 356 | I must pretend to others that I was untroubled by such things, which were only to be found, if at all, in the lowest and most despicable of women. |
| 7 | 357 | I feared I, in my discomforts and afflictions, might be unique amongst other young women of my acquaintance. |
| 7 | 358 | Surely they were superior to such embarrassing weaknesses. |