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powerful person would seem to have a good deal at stake in suppressing or
denying his awareness of the personal reality of others ; power seems to
engender a kind of willed ignorance , a moral stupidity , about the inwardness of
others ...
powerful person would seem to have a good deal at stake in suppressing or
denying his awareness of the personal reality of others ; power seems to
engender a kind of willed ignorance , a moral stupidity , about the inwardness of
others ...
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And we have often longed to ally ourselves with that kind of power . ( In a high -
school yearbook of my generation one of the most brilliant students listed as her
ambition : “ To be married to a great man . ” ) To have some link with male power
...
And we have often longed to ally ourselves with that kind of power . ( In a high -
school yearbook of my generation one of the most brilliant students listed as her
ambition : “ To be married to a great man . ” ) To have some link with male power
...
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... another kind of death — a new liability in the struggle merely to survive . There
is another kind of fear which does seem elemental ; the fear of change , of
transformation , of the unfamiliar . Pregnancy may be experienced as the
extinguishing ...
... another kind of death — a new liability in the struggle merely to survive . There
is another kind of fear which does seem elemental ; the fear of change , of
transformation , of the unfamiliar . Pregnancy may be experienced as the
extinguishing ...
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Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution |
| Author | Adrienne Cecile Rich |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Bantam Books, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 31 Oct 2008 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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