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How even I, "a dutiful daughter," as Simone de Beauvoir once described her young self, was living a life so different from my mother's; when she was my age she was married, about to become pregnant with me. I was beginning to think that this habit of mind--constantly tracing myself back to my mother, to where she'd begun and left off--wasn't idiosyncratic, but something that many if not most women did, a feature of the female experience."
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Every year I try to reread Doris Lessing's slim 1987 polemic (originally a lecture series), Prisons We Choose to Live Inside. In the book, this "epicist of the female experience," as the Swedish Academy put it when awarding her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, reminds us how difficult it is to detach ourselves from the mass emotions and social conditions of the age we're born into; all of us, male and female, are "part of the great co..
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