Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority t…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

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