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     Dorothy Allison said, "Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside." This quote means that not everything human beings do should depend on if you're a man or woman, but if you actually have the ability and effort to do it. People should agree with this quote because now a days, women strive to succeed in just as many things men can do. This can clearly be seen in The Selection because the main character the main character America competes in a competition for a prince's hand in marriage not because she wants to fall in love, but she doesn't want her father being the other one providing for their family. Examples of this in the book is when she experiences harsh situations with the other people of royalty, having to set her actual relationship at home aside with Aspen, and realizing she made it thus far in the competition for her family.