13 Quotes by Janet Benton
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The individuals in a family fit together like pieces in a puzzle, forming a larger picture, making clear the nature of the whole and its parts.
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So little is permissible for a woman – yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood.
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How does a baby know to look its mother in the eyes?
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How is it that shame affixes itself to the violated, and not to the violator?
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If my spirit is pressed even harder, I wondered, will it yield something marvelous – the spirit’s equivalent to olive oil or the juice of grapes?
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Do not be surprised, when thee has children, to find what I have found: of all the kinds of love that bind, a mother’s love for her offspring is the strongest imperative on earth. It is as common as sunlight, as all-penetrating, as necessary to life.
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We can pursue our true wants, Mill writes, only when doing so harms no one to whom we are obliged.
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As if passion alone explained our predicaments. Our being female and unlucky – and, in my case, a near idiot in the ways of amorous men – must be added to that.
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Why had I failed, when all my aims were good?
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