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Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

~Freda Adler

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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

~Freda Adler

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Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

~Freda Adler

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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

~Freda Adler

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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

~Freda Adler

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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

~Freda Adler

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The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

~Freda Adler

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Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

~Freda Adler

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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