Vulgar words in Women's Wild Oats - Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards (Page 1)
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The law is a snob as well as a pedantic, pompous ass.
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"You must be sensible," she insisted, "and send these bastards away.
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I told Mrs. X that she might take her daughters away from my school; that I was willing for her to tell her beastly story to the parents of all my other pupils; that then they, if they wished to do so, might remove their daughters, as for me, I would continue my school with two pupils--the children she had told me were bastards.
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I rather fancy, so ignorant was I then, that this was the first time I had heard that word "bastard," at any rate I felt the word emotionally, in a sharp and different way, when I heard it applied to little children, whom I knew and loved, was caring for and teaching.
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A bastard is _filius nullius_, "nobody's child."