When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
It had been communicated to me through the odd, secret whispers of women that a female__ nose must never shine. In war, in famine, in fire, it had to be matte, and no one got a lipstick without the requisite face powder. _ I was taunted by the problem: how could someone write something like the __ymposium_ and make sure her nose did not shine at the same time? It didn__ matter to me that I was reading a translation. I__ read Plato__ brilliant, dense prose and not be able to tear myself away. Even as a reader my nose shined. It was clearly either/or. You had to concentrate on either one or the other. In a New York minute, the oil from Saudi Arabia could infiltrate your house and end up on your nose. It didn__ hurt, it didn__ make noise, it didn__ incapacitate in any way except for the fact that no girl worth her salt took enough time away from vigilance to read a book let alone write one.
Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant
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It had been communicated to me through the odd, secret whispers of women that a female__ nose must never shine. In war, in famine, in fire, it had to be matte, and no one got a lipstick without the requisite face powder. _ I was taunted by the problem: how could someone write something like the __ymposium_ and make sure her nose did not shine at the same time? It didn__ matter to me that I was reading a translation. I__ read Plato__ brilliant, dense prose and not be able to tear myself away. Even as a reader my nose shined. It was clearly either/or. You had to concentrate on either one or the other. In a New York minute, the oil from Saudi Arabia could infiltrate your house and end up on your nose. It didn__ hurt, it didn__ make noise, it didn__ incapacitate in any way except for the fact that no girl worth her salt took enough time away from vigilance to read a book let alone write one.
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