The World According to Garp was always a feminist novel, but in the passage of time I’ve become more of a feminist. Why? Because the inequalities and discrimination women faced in the start-up days of the women’s movement haven’t gone away. Because the anti-abortion zealots—their subjecting of women to childbirth, by denying them a choice about abortion, and the ongoing second-class treatment of women by the Roman Catholic Church and the so-called pro-life proponents—haven’t gone away. That’s why. Garp is a political novel, and the politics of sexual intolerance and suppression haven’t gone
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