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Anyway, these books i love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it’s totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry. i wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
-Claire Messud
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Anyway, These Books I Love, They’re All

Claire Messud
Anyway, these books i love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it’s totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry. i wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
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