"Not all women like a beating. Only the normal ones."

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— Jodie Marsh

1978

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— Edward Bellamy

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"In Thoha Khalsa, on March 12, 1947 after long and heroic resistance, 200 Sikhs were killed. The women were asked to embrace Islam, but 93 of them, old and young, decided to escape dishonour by drownin…"

— Gurbachan Singh Talib

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