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Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?


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People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.



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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.



The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.



To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.



I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.



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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.



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If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.



There's never been a good government.

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A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.





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