When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover becau…

“When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.”

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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Equality

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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Knowledge

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Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Society

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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Wisdom

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