“What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.”

"A Woman's Liberation", p. 208
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)

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American writer 1929–2018

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