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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Sophie Quigley on "feminising literature"
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Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 01:32:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 24 01:32:35 1984
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This was a reply that i got which should have been a followup. --- Laura

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Laura, I feel I have to respond to your flame as I posted the original
article causing it.
I feel very strongly about people changing what I have said too.  I feel
that it is immoral, but can't really defend that position as words are
nobody's private properties, nor are sentences.  That was the reason I
nearly didn't read the article.  Now I don't know what the author of the
article wanted to do (she joked about "translating" Jane Austen to her
sons), and I don't want to know.  What I found very interesting was the
RESULT of what she did and the way I reacted to it.  I didn't want to
write about it because I didn't want to influence other people, but I
entend to eventually write down my own reactions after I see how other
people feel (I think that whether they are men or women will be quite signifi-
cant).
I hope this will clarify my intentions.
				Sophie Quigley