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== Real Life ==

* For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women, by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, talks about American medical, psychological, and childbearing "help" and advice that did great harm to women although the experts insisted it was meant for their own good. (Such as clitoredectomy, to name just one unfortunate idea.)

* "Chief, don't you be my benefactor" was an old adage in Soviet prisons. Lev Gumilev -- who was there in Stalin's era -- used more than one opportunity to quote it in the context of politics in his history books.