"Righteousness has no place in literature. Of course the keen observer of her culture will feel deeply about the oppression she sees around her, the inhumanity of man to man, of man to woman, but her vision of it must be essentially personal, not abstractly political."
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Educators from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesLGBT rights activists20th-century poets from the United StatesNovelists from New York City
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