"The clich? that women, more consistently than men,……" — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
"The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies."
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