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“The late John Gardner once said that there are only two plots in all of literature. You go on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Since women, for many years, were denied the journey, they were left with only one plot in their lives --
to await the stranger. Indeed, there is essentially no picaresque tradition among women novelists. While the latter part of the twentieth century has seen a change of tendency, women's literature from Austen to Woolf is by and large a literature about waiting, usually for love.”
― The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers
to await the stranger. Indeed, there is essentially no picaresque tradition among women novelists. While the latter part of the twentieth century has seen a change of tendency, women's literature from Austen to Woolf is by and large a literature about waiting, usually for love.”
― The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers
“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...”
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
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“That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!”
― Diggers
― Diggers
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Group reserved for current and past students of Mee's Practical English http://practicalenglish.meexia.com ...more
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