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“. . . For when man and woman come together in thoughtless fornication or in acts rendered deliberately sterile, they deny the fullness of reality; each sex wishes the other were, for the time being, less of what he or she is, less male, less female. That is but an instance of a general habit, as we are forbidden to take sex into account even when we are mustering up human bodies to stand against guns and bayonets on a battlefield. We are caught in a strange contradiction. The man who most keenly senses the peculiar goodness of womanhood is most likely to be accused of misogyny, precisely because he cannot forget that same womanhood when the politics around him demand it. The woman who is most grateful for the peculiar strengths of manhood is most likely to be accused of cowardice and treachery against her sex—against her sex, not as a sex, but as a political interest group. . . . ”
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