"[On why she fears the crucifix] Everyone fears her, and that's the problem. It is not a symbol of virtue and goodness at all, it is a symbol of horror and oppression. Your stupid Church has terrorized the peasant population for centuries and I have drunk the blood of those people for so long that I have absorbed their deep fear of the cross. My God! I can't wait to eat some atheists."
January 1, 1970
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