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  1. David Brin _ Earth

    Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
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  2. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _ Alice on the Outside

    I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something.
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  3. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _ The Grooming of Alice

    For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.
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  4. Barbara Ehrenreich _ Living with a Wild God: A

    In my experience, any class or assembly restricted to girls was going to be in some way degrading, like the one where we'd been convened to receive the information that from now on our bodies would be producing poisons that would need to be discharged on a monthly basis, through an unspecified orifice. The restriction of the typing requirement to girls suggested some sort of connection between our festering genitals and the need to serve in a clerical-type occupation, perhaps as a punishment.
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  5. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Beautiful Struggle: A

    I was peace pipes and treaties. My style was to talk and duck. It was an animal tactic, playing dead in hopes that the predators would move to an actual fight.
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  6. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His blackheads bled and he cut his upper lip as he tried to shape a mustache of blond fuzz, and when it was all over he looked the same as before, but the laborious process gave Amaranta the feeling that she had begun to grow old at that moment.
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