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" I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. "
Tori Amos
Women
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" Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30. "
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