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  • It must have roused in men an extraordinary desire for selfassertion; it must have made them lay an emphasis upon their own sex and its characteristics which they would not have troubled to think about had they not been challenged.

    A room of one's own 2006

  • "Pagan selfassertion" is one of the elements of human worth, as well as "Christian self-denial." [

    On Liberty 2002

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