For men are forbidden to take notice of women, and women are forbidden to take notice of men.
 Ayn Rand, Anthem (1938). copy citation

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Author Ayn Rand
Source Anthem
Topic women forbidding
Date 1938
Language English
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“And in our heart—strange are the ways of evil!—in our heart there is the first peace we have known in twenty years. PART TWO Liberty 5-3000... Liberty five-three thousand ... Liberty 5-3000.... We wish to write this name. We wish to speak it, but we dare not speak it above a whisper. For men are forbidden to take notice of women, and women are forbidden to take notice of men. But we think of one among women, they whose name is Liberty 5-3000, and we think of no others. The women who have been assigned to work the soil live in the Homes of the Peasants beyond the City. Where the City ends there is a great road winding off to the north, and we Street Sweepers must keep this road clean to the first milepost.” source