Sublime

Doris Lessing, who made me think in uncomfortably explicit ways about girls and freedom,

To find out what women writers are up against, if you want the useful blues, read Tillie Olsen, and if you want to get cheerfully enraged, read Joanna Russ’s How to Suppress Women’s Writing or Dale Spender’s wonderful Man Made Language.

How can any girl sustain the belief that she is loved, truly loved, when all around her she sees that femaleness is despised?

sex distinctions?"

tautological