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“Miss Jackson writes not with a pen but a broomstick”
Anne Sexton opened her poem “Housewife” (1962) with the line “Some women marry houses.”
Brown, they would later write, had taught them that the goal of reading and criticizing was “to know and understand, not to like or dislike, and the aim of writing was to get down what you wanted to say, not to gesticulate or impress.”
“Americans’ philosophy seems to be that it is barbarous to persecute Jews, but silly to suppose that they have table manners. Of the two types of persecution, Germany’s sometimes seems a shade less grim.”
“It is not proven that Elizabeth’s personal equilibrium was set off balance by the slant of the office floor, nor could it be proven that it was Elizabeth who pushed the building off its foundations,” the novel tells us, “but it is undeniable that they began to slip at about the same time.”
