A Quote by Joan Didion
To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class.
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If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.
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If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
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You CAN make an omelette without breaking eggs. It's just a really bad omelette.
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