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Amazons .... were conquerors, horse tamers, and huntresses who gave birth to children but did not nurse or rear them [these Amazons being the aforementioned "feminist wing"][.]
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Mothers and Amazons (trans. 1965 (original 1930s)), p. 123.

 
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