"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.“


-Andrea Dworkin

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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

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