He used it on a particular kind of girl or woman, somebody with whom he could not foresee a future, somebody who he knew would one day perceive him truly, with X-ray eyes, and move on.

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Margaret Thatcher would no more have identified herself as a woman, or claimed special pleading that she was a mere frail girl, or asked you to sympathize with her because of her sex, than she would have called up the Kremlin and asked how quickly she could surrender.

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When an investment is made in a girl or woman, she invests 90 percent into her families, as opposed to the 30 to 40 percent that a boy or a man would invest.

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But if the relationship is working out and it's just that you have a feeling for another girl or woman, it's really bad.

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But to describe a certain type of girl or woman?

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There was conflicting information about the identities of the dead, and uncertainty about whether the reports were accurate, but the victims were said to have included an old woman, or possibly an old man, and a twelve-year-old girl.

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The possibility that such mistakes are common will be cold comfort to the girl who lost a critical reproductive part, or to the family of the woman who died after being mistakenly transfused with oxygen.

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