Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...strongest and best-know essay of the lot, "Click! The Housewife's Moment of Truth," provides a primer for the housewife who has recently become aware she is oppressed. ("Decide what housework needs to be done. Then cut the list in half... Do not feel guilty.") It also lists various epiphanic moments when women realized their traditional role was absurd (at a consciousness-raising group exercise, the women discover they envision themselves as domesticated cats; a husband praises himself for helping his working wife with housework on his vacation...
...says no actual feminist groups have contacted her, and laughs. "I guess they know I don't have much to say to them...
...When I dream, I dream of there," Della Terza said yesterday. "I know everyone in the town and everyone who died. A whole part of my life has been razed...
...today-and what largely accounts for the current Virginia Woolf boom in publishing-is the vividness of personality in her nonfiction. When her letters and memoirs are added to the complete diaries (three volumes published, with two to go), we may, as Editor Nigel Nicolson says, "be able to know Virginia Woolf better than we can know almost any other person of this century...
...when, at 59, fearing the loss of her artistic gift and sensing the onset of another bout of madness, she decided to drown herself: "Dearest, I want to tell you that you have given me complete happiness. No one could have done more than you have done . . . But I know that I shall never get over this: and I am wasting your life...