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“A jury will label a distressed female as shrill or hysterical for the exact same behaviors they’d term righteous indignation in a man.”

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Book:The Devil You Know

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Book:The Devil You Know

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“Women, after pursuit on his part, had found him disappointing in a way he had never fully understood. His appearance, he supposed, was misleading: he was tall, and to all intents and purposes agreeable to look at, but his longing — for home, for love, for consolation — let him down.”

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“Women are something great and magnificent in the sight of God... so we should not neglect our female children, we should respect them, because these girls will grow up to become the women who raise and train mankind tomorrow - Shaykh Ibrahim Nissse, Senegal”

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“It's got to be all right That it's not all right 'Cause there's always times when it can't be all right That's how you Get through Every single day”

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