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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.


Marina Warner


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She is currently Professor in the Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. Marina Sarah Warner CBE FBA (born 9 November 1946 in London England) is a British novelist short story writer historian and mythographer.

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