Grave years and the undead woman

The chilling erasure of mothers' needs

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A portrait photograph of a person's torso. The person is wearing an apron. They hold a broom in one hand and a basket of cleaning products in the other.

I HAVE NEVER read anything written by Pearl S Buck. But a few years ago, I came across something she once said that I have been unable to forget. 

In a 1958 interview on the American TV show The Mike Wallace Interview, the eponymous Wallace (pausing every now and then to plug Parliament-brand cigarettes) interrogates Buck about her views on women and the home:

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Tiffany Tsao

Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary translator. She is currently deputy editor at the Sydney Review of Books. Her next novel, But Won’t...

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