| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42937 |
| QUOTATION: | Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Tillie Olsen (b. 1912), U.S. essayist and story writer. Silences, part 1 (1978).
Written in 1971, on being critical of writing that depicts women stereotypically or inaccurately. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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