The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like t…

Rachel Cusk
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The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake. ✨ Rachel Cusk (2012). Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, p.13, Faber & Faber
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