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Lady Sappho in curly gold letters is the name of the book I will (will not) write. (beginning of "Everyday Depressions")

Joanna Russ

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Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism and is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire.

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Lady Sappho in curly gold letters is the name of the book I will (will not) write. (beginning of "Everyday Depressions") - Joanna Russ

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