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• That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

  We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)

  Chimamanda Adichie
  Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• expectations
• destitution
• recognizing
• individual
• problem
• imagine

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