Summary
"Nonsense," [Paul] said. "I don't want you to work, and besides, you aren't qualified for anything." Paul is not a brute; he simply cannot understand the possibility that a beautiful suburban house can sometimes act as a prison.
'"Right back in the kitchen,' [Nan] sighed. "Well, of course we can always be Great American Housewives and make careers of our Great American Homes. But it isn't enough. It doesn't take all you've got, not by a long shot."[Kay Hiller] and Nan ask each other if they are in a rut: '"Each in his prison,' she had quoted, on one such occasion, and I had let it go at that, because I wasn't certain how far my metaphors would take me. But somewhere among them was our old friend security, which, with its bonds of the familiar, might conceivably be looked upon as a shackling, limiting necessity-in short, a prison."See the full content of this document
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Herstory Lesson
In the course of a 1997 lecture, John Updike spoke of his mother, a free-lance writer for magazines. He recalled the large brown envelopes of manuscript which would be mailed from his home. Sometimes her work was published, sometimes ...
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