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  • I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the pots, tired of my mouth and my breasts tired of the cosmetics and the silks† I was tired of the gender of things.

    - Anne ne  e Harvey Sexton
      Live or Die,'Consorting with Angels'.

  • Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a'   l'espe'  ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e  chappe me"  me a'   l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.

    -Crayencour
    Me  moires d'Hadrien.

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