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“When I write, I am free. I am as a writer whatever I wish to become. I can think myself into a male or a female, or a stone or a raindrop or a bloc of wood, or a Tibetan, or a spine of a cactus. In life, I am not free. In life, female or male, no one is free. … My freedom is contingent on need. I am in short, claimed” (“Literature and the Politics of Dissent,” 285).
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Cohen, S.B. (2007). Cynthia Ozick’s Puttermesser Papers: From Whimsy to Wisdom. In: Avery, E. (eds) Modern Jewish Women Writers in America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604841_9
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