Carolina QuotesI knew that [prostitution] had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.
Nawal El Saadawi Connected to the Carolinas
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- Woman at Point Zero (1975)
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- 1975
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