“Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
“There's something perverse about women… they're all masochists at heart.”
— Henry Miller, book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
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