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I have come a long way with feminism. When it first hit the fan in the early 1970s I was living in a thin-walled apartment next to a woman who held assertiveness-training workshops that included bloodcurdling shouts of ‘This steak is tough! I demand to see the manager!’ Now, 40 years later, assertiveness is all about careers.
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Florence King’s books include Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, Lump It or Leave It and With Charity Toward None: a Fond Look at Misanthropy.
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