I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This…

Andrea Dworkin
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I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will. ✨ Andrea Dworkin (2010). Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing
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I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will. ✨ Andrea Dworkin (2010). Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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