“America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash – and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed.”
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Friday, September 14, 2007
Calm down, Nate! Eleventh graders will suffer through your writing for years to come.
“America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash – and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed.”
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ha ha!
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ReplyDeleteNot in my class. Women writers only need apply. Even Nate's great heroine doens't make the cut.
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