362 Kurt Vonnegut (with Tom Roston)
The History of Literature
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A Woman's Reach Should Exceed Her Grain
You've come this far anyway, and it wasn't easy. And i now recite a famous line by the poet robert browning with one small change. I have replaced his word man, which in his time was taken to mean human being, with the word woman. May i say too, that his wife, eliz barrett, was as great a poet as he was. How do i love thee? Let me count the ways and so on. While i'm at it, get a load of this. The atomic bomb, which we dropped on the people of hiroshima, was first envisioned by a woman, not a man. She didn't call it an atomic
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