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"Women's time": women, age, and intergenerational relations in Doris Lessing's The Diaries of Jane Somers.
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Studies in the Literary Imagination
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September 22, 2006
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Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.--Simone de Beauvoir, Old Age (543)
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