Some quotes first: "I went to the peace office and instead of typing letters for the peace boys I wrote to newspapers saying I had been hurt and it was bad and not all right and because I didn't know sophisticated words I used the words I knew and they were very shocked to death; and the peace boys were in the office and I refused to type a letter for one of them because I was doing this and he read my letter out loud to everyone in the room over my shoulder and they all laughed at me, and I had spelled America with a 'k' because I knew I was in Kafka's world, not Jefferson's, and I knew Amerika was the real country I lived in." P.xvi “ "The worst immorality," she wrote, "is in living a trivial life because one is afraid to face any other kind of life-a despairing life or an anguished life or a twisted and difficult life."” p. xix. "man' and 'woman' are fictions, caricatures, cultural constructs ... reductive, totalitar...