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Comments(1 total) Post a Comment8Fieu Offline In an article for Slate shortly after Election Day 2004, she wrote:

"The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry...I suppose the good news is that 55 million Americans have evaded the ignorance-inducing machine. But 58 millions have not...Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states...The error that progressives have consistently committed over the years is to underestimate the vitality of ignorance in America...The history of the last four years shows that red state types, above all, do not want to be told what to do - they prefer to be ignorant. As a result, they are virtually unteachable...Listen to what the red state citizens say about themselves, the songs they write, and the sermons they flock to. They know who they are - they are full of original sin and they have a taste for violence."
In response to the Bush Administration, she wrote:

"In a just world, these people would be taken out and shot."[2]
At a book reading, Barnes and Noble, San Jose, California, 4/16/1996

"Women in their late 20s, prior to the birth of the first child, are all certain not to make the mistakes other women have made to render them powerless, attending to others' needs."
"A real moment of real women talking" - Regarding King Lear's daughters Goneril and Regan talking about their father.
"One day you sit down and start writing" - Answering 'how does one become a writer?'.
"Two hours is two pages per day."
JANE SMILEY

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