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“Charm"—which means the power to effect work without employing brute force—is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”

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“The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.”

“The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.”

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