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Definition: (verb) to act to reconcile differences between two parties.
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She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn’t a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a snarky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.

Author: Atwood, Margaret

Category: women and men

Attribution: Margaret Atwood (b. 1939), Canadian novelist, poet, critic. repr. In Dancing Girls (1984). “The Man From Mars,” Ontario Review (1977).



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