Feminists Didn’t Invent Tough, Independent Women

Hats off to them, but women have been kicking it since Eve left the Garden of Eden.

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For weeks I sat in awe of the writing teacher who had edited every important American writer in the second half of the twentieth century. I’d had to submit a writing sample for entry to his class. At the time, I thought he saw promise when he…