Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its wom — Salman Rushdie, Shame
Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its wom — Salman Rushdie, Shame
Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its wom — Salman Rushdie, Shame
Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its wom — Salman Rushdie, Shame
Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its wom — Salman Rushdie, Shame
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Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well.

— Salman Rushdie, Shame
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