"The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic."

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...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt.

— Janet Fitch