standing on the shoulders of complex female characters
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standing on the shoulders of complex female characters
Becoming a woman is realizing that you are becoming your mother.
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If women were not allowed to be seen as emblematic of the human condition, I wouldn’t even get to be seen as emblematic of the female condition. Even worse was the fact that the female condition in literature—one of whiteness and confinement—remains so unsatisfying. I was shut out of a realm that I didn’t even really want to enter. The heroine’s
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In and Against the Personal Essay
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