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hierarchical society – the ruling class monopolizes valuable things, so
Margaret Atwood • The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid’s Tale)
‘Manuscripts don’t burn’,
Larissa Volokhonsky • THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
her body tortured by the winds of puberty,
Frank Herbert • Dune
Obedience, subservience, docility: these were the virtues required.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
he thought something had suddenly begun malfunctioning, rather than just continuing along its natural entropic path, unimpeded by the feminine forces that typically stood in its way.
Caite Dolan-Leach • Dead Letters: A Novel

How Fiction Works, James Wood,