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I have to say that war is man-made. It's made by men. It's their thing, it's their world, and they're terribly injured in it. They suffer terribly in it, but it's made by men. How do they come to live this way?

— Grace Paley Of Poetry and Women and the World (1986)

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With a few grasping, kind words and a modern gimmick, she hoped to breathe eternity into a mortal matter, love.

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Plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

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For happiness, she also required work to do in this world and bread on the table.

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It is still hard to believe that a man who sends out the Ten Commandments every year for a Christmas card can be so easy buttoning and unbuttoning.

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