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"Hollywood got this tale ALL WRONG when it was turned into a film. The book needs to be read and pondered, as Stephen Jay Gould wrote in an essay "

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"Long before Betty Friedan's bombshell, The Feminine Mystique, in 1965, Hurston wrote this tale, in 1937, of a black woman and how the three men in her life affected her---two by abusing her, and the third, by loving her. It should be read by all American girls and women."

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"Kate Chopin's heroine was an early example of an American wife who realized that that role should not reduce a woman to being just 'support staff' to a man. The life-force within her drove her to desperate lengths in the attempt to realize her own potential in a society that did not allow wpmen to seek such fulfillment. "

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"This is THE "woman's World War II novel", weaving together the wartime experiences of a half-dozen women in a variety of capacities, including aircraft pilot, OSS staffer, war correspondent, etc."