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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it.

Source: The Sexual Politics of Fear and Courage, speech, 12 March 1975, Queens College, City University of New York (published in Our Blood, ch. 5, 1976).
-- Andrea Dworkin, (Sep 26 1946-2005), US radical feminist, civil rights activist, writer; She worked to have pornography classified as a form of sex discrimination; wrote Woman Hating, 1974.

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