I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who com­pels my strength, who makes enorm­ous demands on me, who does not doubt my cour­age or my tough­ness, who does not believe me naïve or inno­cent, who has the cour­age to treat me like a woman.

— Anais Nin

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