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In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

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The idea that men don't know what women mean when women say no stems from something deeper and more complicated than feminist concerns with rape. The conservative thrust of the movement against date rape is that women need to be protected from men who don't share their social background.

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In this era of Just Say No and No Means No, we don't have many words for embracing experience. Now instead of liberation and libido, the emphasis is on trauma and disease.

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She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.

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Katie Roiphe

Katie Roiphe

Born: 1968 (age 57)
Bio: Katie Roiphe is an American author and journalist. She is best known as the author of the non-fiction examination The Morning After: Fear, Sex and Feminism.
Known for:
  1. The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End (2016)
  2. In Praise of Messy Lives (2012)
  3. The Morning After (1993)
  4. Still she haunts me (2001)

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