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There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.


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Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.



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The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.



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She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.



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Better immersion than to live untouched.



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It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.



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And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?



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Not to have an audience is a kind of death.



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This page presents the quote "There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.". Author of this quote is Tillie Olsen. This quote is about hurt, hurt feelings, cuss words,.