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“Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]”

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Carolyn Heilbrun
Carolyn Heilbrun

Carolyn Heilbrun was a prominent American feminist literary critic and author, born on January 13, 1926, and passed away on October 9, 2003. Her works deeply explored the role of women in literature and society, having a profound impact on feminist literary criticism. more

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