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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men__ hands, since that wouldn__ change anything about the world. It__ a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men__ hands, since that wouldn__ change anything about the world. It__ a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

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