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For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values. . .

Source: The Sexual Politics of Fear and Courage, speech, first delivered 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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