

“OF COURSE THIS ONE:
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive....”
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“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive....”
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“This is the “woman’s pluckâ€� story, the dust-bowl story, the burying-your-child-on-the-trail story, the I-will-never-go-hungry-again story, the Mildred Pierce story, the story about how the sheer nerve of even professionally unskilled women can prevail, show the men; the story that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men. The dreams and the fears into which Martha Stewart taps are not of “feminineâ€� domesticity but of female power, of the woman who sits down at the table with the men and, still in her apron, walks away with the chips. 2000”
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean: An Essay Collection
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean: An Essay Collection
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