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Letter "F" » flagrant
«When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.»
Author: Anna Quindlen
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Author,
Journalist)
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About:
Children,
Feminism,
Women
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Keywords:
actress,
blinds,
dichotomy,
exposure,
feeding,
flagrant,
Madonna,
nursing,
nursing home,
public exposure,
roles,
send off,
stays,
venture,
vestige,
whore
«Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions»
«Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained»
«They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening»
Author: George Orwell
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Essayist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
demanded,
enormity,
flagrant,
grasped,
happening,
happenings,
interested,
in public,
notice,
sufficiently,
The Public Interest,
violations