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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

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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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