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I was too selfish to have a child before I was ready for one, and there's no shame in admitting that. Women should be selfish about our choices, for as long as we have the privilege of being selfish. Selfishness in women isn't the great crime that people like to pretend it is. We are as entitled as men to prioritise ourselves and our desires, and we are as capable as men of knowing what's best for us. Why is everyone so pathologically terrified of selfish women? The word is thrown around like an insult, as if the worst thing a woman could possibly do (aside from being fat, having sex with whomever she pleases and whenever, swearing, having an abortion, drinking alcohol, standing up for herself and being a working mother) is to decide that her life matters. But women are allowed to be selfish. It shouldn't be considered a 'privilege' to be able to control our own bodies nor should it be treated like a favour done to us by the state. It's a right that, by and large, has been stolen from us and used to keep us in thrall to a paternalistic body that pretends to know what's best for us but is really only interested in maintaining the order that has proved best for them.
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LOVE 708 clues
TATE 337 clues
GUILT 92 clues
WRITING 74 clues
LYRICS 57 clues
READING 52 clues
LISTENING 16 clues
PATRIARCHY 3 clues
SELFISHNESS 2 clues

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  1. CLEMENTINE 80.00%
  2. Clementine's cover 78.79%
  3. Clementine's footwear. 77.78%
  4. Clementine's dad 77.42%
  5. Clementine's father 76.47%
  6. Clementine discards 76.47%
  7. Clementine, e.g. 75.86%
  8. "Clementine" singer 75.00%
  9. Clementine cousin 75.00%
  10. Clementine Father of 74.29%
  11. Clementine's pa, for one 73.68%
  12. Clementine's pa 73.33%
  13. Clementine or kumquat 72.22%
  14. Clementine descriptor 72.22%
  15. Clementine's dad, for one 71.79%
  16. Collectible Ford 70.97%
  17. Clementine's 9's 70.97%
  18. Clementine's cousin 70.59%
  19. Clementine or lime, e.g. 70.27%
  20. Clementine's papa. 68.75%
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Unscramble CLEMENTINE10-letter words that start with C10-letter words that end in E10-letter words containing LE10-letter words containing NE10-letter words with C and L
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
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