The Maids

Jean Genet

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Important Quotations Explained

"As one loves a mistress."


"Frontiers are not convention but laws. Here, my lands; there, your shore—"


"She loves us the way she loves her bidet."


"When slaves love one another, it's not love."


"Go on! I'm getting there, I'm getting there!"


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