"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power."

Power, Women, Business, Writers

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"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power."

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"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."

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"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."

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