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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

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Aug 08, 2015 08:56AM

“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: grotesque, southern-writing

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“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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