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- Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing…
- I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century…
- I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging…
- Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table,…
- I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely…
- I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated…
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