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On Being Asked, Yet Again, If I Ever Read Women Writers
Posted 16 May, 2008 in Reading Life |
“You have to remember, too, that in even the most sympathetic, apparently un-chauvinistic, un-macho male, there lurks something of the machista, and in all but the truly liberated woman there is some terrible atavistic admiration for this attitude.”
– “The New Machismo,” Christina McCall