"There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively."

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For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

— Angela Carter