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Shirley Jackson: [to Rose] Let's pray for a boy. The world is too cruel to girls.
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Rose Nemser: [about Paula] Maybe disappearing was the only way anyone would notice her.
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Shirley Jackson: [about her husband] Well, he is an expert at finding a willing pair of legs to open wide.
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Stanley Hyman: [about Paula] She's a nothing... Who is she to you?
Shirley Jackson: There are dozens and dozens of girls like this littering campuses across the country. Lonely girls who cannot make the world see them... Do not tell me I do not know this girl... Don't you dare!
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Shirley Jackson: I know who my husband is screwing... Do you know who yours has?
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