Word: brooders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grievance collectors who blame men for everything. True, she thinks that men fail women. But she also feels that women are careless and callous, and that both sexes spend time and love and integrity as if they were unloading counterfeit money. Obsessed by waste and loss, she is a brooder who sifts her experience over and over again. The last lines of Play It As It Lays appear in a paraphrase throughout her work. They imply questioning-and possibly a survivor's grudging affirmation...