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“But what I hate most is women always having to be passive … Why? Why are we always the ones running away and you are the ones chasing after us? Why is it always that we surrender and you take the spoils? Why is it that even in the way you beg, there is dominance, and pity in the way we refuse?”

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Book:Kürk Mantolu Madonna
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Book:Le Consentement
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Author:Aleksandra Ninkovic
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Book:As I Lay Dying
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