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| 12 | 339 | I cannot View more quotes about mean">mean exactly that. |
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| 12 | 336 | And yet how vulnerable she would feel, as she was, naked and collared, without it. |
| 12 | 337 | I must not let myself be a wicked woman, she thought. |
| 12 | 338 | No, no, she thought. |
| 12 | 339 | I cannot mean exactly that. |
| 12 | 340 | She had long ago abandoned, at least in her official views, the acknowledgedly obsolescent category of "wicked," with its suppressive, grotesque historical antecedents, but, on the other hand, it was difficult for her to clear her mind of the fumes, the noxious residue, of the past, particularly as these residues had been carefully encouraged, propagated, utilized and exploited by ideologues to advance their own political projects. |
| 12 | 341 | And such was the victim, she, of years of lingeringly puritanical enculturation. |
| 12 | 342 | And thus, so to speak, are the sins of the fathers, and of the mothers, visited upon succeeding generations. |