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Nancy Mairs, Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer Quotes: In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.
         

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.


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