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Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.
— Henry David Thoreau
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motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
— Adrienne Rich
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