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“I’m not conveying the full light-to-dark spectrum of her feelings about Joan. Am conveying dark-to-darker only.”
like why is it written like this

"[I'd] begun telling rock 'n' roll stars I hated rock 'n' roll and nobody is that cute," she wrote.

As it happens l am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language, and I am not optimistic about children who settle for saying, to indicate that their mother and father do not live together, that they come from 'a broken home.’

To be viewed as serious was vital for a woman artist—still is vital, I’d argue—since men artists were—and are—just looking for an excuse to condemn or dismiss.

So he wants me to come to Oklahoma, drop everything and marry him and live in Oklahoma. Only, shit! Heaven forbid-Oklahoma! My God! So it turns out I can't do it.