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1 " No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy. "
― , Tremble: Erotic Tales of the Mystical and Sinister
2 " She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different. "
― Mervyn Peake , Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
3 " I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico so much so that her independence and capability of sustaining herself are almost as essential to our prosperity and the maintenance of our institutions as they are to hers. "
