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Female writer’s ‘logic is evidently too austere for many tastes’

March 7, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Ah, yes. It’s a common complaint made about women authors:

She has that splinter of ice in the heart that Graham Greene talked about.”

Except it is usually expressed as:

“F*ck you, you ugly bitch!”

You get used to it, mostly.

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