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A Heretic's Phrasebook

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A Heretic's Phrasebook

Surgical intervention, though too little, too late.

E. Lily Yu
Feb 20
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A Heretic's Phrasebook

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“We are the heirs, however, of centuries in which women, like words, have been considered symbolic objects of use in a masculine structure, linguistic tokens rather than wielders of words in our own right.”
—Annis Pratt, Archetypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction

“And I remind myself all the time now that if I were to have been born mute, or had maintained an…

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