The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained … - Molly Haskell

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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.

Molly Haskell

The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.

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Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

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But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

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The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

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Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

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