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...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.
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If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.
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He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.
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a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
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(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
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To be worshiped is not freedom.
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Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.
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A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.
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...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.
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