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Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non- participants—even women!—new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

Selma James

Selma James (b. 1930), U.S. author, political activist. The Ladies and the Mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys, ch. 1 (1983).

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