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Hedy Lamarr

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

Hedy Lamarr

Marriage

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Hedy Lamarr is describing Mr. DeMille's belief that marriage is not a natural condition for women, but something imposed on them.

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