"The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men."

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I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded to me very much like the tradition of a hired man in any world-class poem. That's what I was, a hired man. I was working for a collective farm.

— Joseph Brodsky