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“In college, educated women (I found out) were frigid; active women (I knew) were neurotic; women (we all knew) were timid, incapable, dependent, nurturing, passive, intuitive, emotional, unintelligent, obedient, and beautiful. You can always get dressed up and go to…

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“Thus in the bad days, in the dark swampy times.”

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“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing…

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“(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)”

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“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too." [ "Existence" (1975)]”

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“Until you learn better, you think that a landscaped world can't hurt you or please you, you needn't bother about its soul, you needn't…

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The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.) Denial of Agency: She didn't write it. Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it. Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about. False Categorizing: She is not really she…

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“What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?”

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Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

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“I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a crowd of students about, all of them talking, a stack of books in one arm, a mass of student papers in the other, seven committee reports wedged in between, as well as her small daughter in a backpack, and she…

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