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"Fran Lebowitz's Travel Hints" Social Studies (1981)"Lesson 1" Social Studies (1981)"Letters" Metropolitan Life (1978)"Manners" Metropolitan Life (1978)Metropolitan Life (1978)

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As a practicing member of several oppressed minority groups, I feel that I have on the whole conducted myself with the utmost decorum. I have ... refrained from marching, chanting ... or in any other way making anything that could even vaguely be construed as a fuss.

Fran Lebowitz

Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950), U.S. humorist. Social Studies, ch. 18 (1981).

Lebowitz did not specify the minority groups to which she belonged, but probably meant that she was female, Jewish, and a smoker.

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