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Well, I think you could.
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I mean, that wouldn't tell the full story, but it would certainly tell you a lot.
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And I mean, the books that were...
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Key to my evolution, I think, as a woman, as a thinker, as a feminist, were definitely Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, which was published in 1949 in English and I read it in 1965.
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That would be the key.
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initial text Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique even though I wasn't an American suburban housewife so I couldn't identify with the particular circumstances she was describing but I could identify with the sociological proposition I guess and that is you had all these educated women who'd just been dumped in the suburbs in their their whole
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education being, you know, thwarted and wasted.
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And this to me was an example of society not enabling women to pursue opportunities for which they were qualified and wanted to.
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Kate Millett's book, Sexual Politics, is incredibly important to me.
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I read that in 1970 when it first came out.
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And it's probably, you know, the book in my life.
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And I do recount in the book how when I went in 1978, I think it was, to live in St.
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Paul,
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Minnesota for a few months on a journalist scholarship.
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And I was very conscious of the fact that Kate Millett and also Scott Fitzgerald had both been born in St.
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Paul.
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And as I walked down the great Grand Avenue, the great boulevard of St.
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Paul, I thought about both of those writers.
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But in Kate Millett's case, her book, Sexual Politics, where she
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I mean, analyze doesn't even begin to describe what she did, but she just turned contemporary literature on its head by looking at the writings of D.H.