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    <body><![CDATA[This book seemed much more dated than it did the first time I read it, shortly after its publication, but the fundamental message remains relevant despite the fact that today's women have far more socially legitimate options than those who provide Heilbrun's examples.<br/><br/>The main reason for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77623363">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While the book is still relevant -- how women hide themselves to conform to ideals that don't ultimately benefit them -- my favorite chapter is the last, discussing being authentic and powerful after 50.  While I'm not there yet (close though), the chapter includes both a promise of finally not bein...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15333268">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I adored this book. It might very well knock off one of the books currently on my favorites list. I had to read it with a notepad handy to take notes on all the biographies, novels, and poetry books she mentioned that I hadn't heard that will now be trickling onto my too read list.<br/><br/>Plus, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63606855">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this while writing my dissertation and wanted to re-read it for my latest writing project. The second time was even better than the first. Heilbrun's book is a classic feminist text. Although she discusses literary works, it's a book for anyone who's ever wondered how women come to write abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31628795">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[quote from the last pages of the book:<br/><br/>&quot;We women have lived too much with closure: &quot;If he notices me, if i maary him, if i get into college, if i get this work accepted, if i get tht job&quot; - there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11375699">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely interesting, very readable look at how little or nothing of the full scope of women's lives, feelings, aspirations, was included in journals, autobiographies, biographies, until the mid-70's. Makes you think about your own life, what you share, or don't, how we decide what can be thought o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66055432">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Both writer's how-to and autobiography, this book shared advice about surviving a life in academia that I have seen proven true time and time again.  A gift from Dr Heilbrun to the rest of us.  Any woman entering the maze should definitely read this book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the only academic book I've read over and over and over again. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely superb. Heilbrun packs a lot of wisdom into this slim volume.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In this watershed work, Heilbrun examines how women's true life histories and realities have been submerged or distorted to conform with external expectations. She also provides suggestions for new frameworks in which to examine women's lives.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, <u>Writing a Woman's Life</u> has not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16485834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all-time favorite books.  When I read this, I was at a hard point in my life and it gave me hope for the future.  I also re-read it at some point and I've kept it on my shelves all these years and now,  I'm realizing that I need to re-read this book because I wonder what I would think of i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20955392">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is more of a currently-checked-out-from-the-library shelf, we'll see how much I'm able to plow through ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book should be read by all women. The author targets how women derive their writings from the teachings of man and how we as women do not think or write for ourselves.<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me think, and rethink some important issues about how women are written and portrayed, even from our own pens.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book from my early feminist years.]]></body>
    
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