The independent strong woman was a bad woman, even in the r… - Meridel Le Sueur

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The independent strong woman was a bad woman, even in the radical press. Irene and I had a vision of the free new woman growing in her own pattern-a new crop, new protein, new communication, new connections, new conceptions-birthing out of terrible hunger and anger.

Meridel Le Sueur

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Meridel Le Sueur (February 22, 1900, Murray, Iowa – November 14, 1996, Hudson, Wisconsin) was an writer associated with the proletarian literature movement of the 1930s and 1940s in the USA.

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Birth Name: Meridel Wharton

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