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May 23 '11
“An unspeakable word is the word that has to be spoken if language is to be honored. It is a word that belongs colloquially to my anatomy if I choose it, but that has been so appropriated by misogyny and prudery that I am supposed to be horrified and distressed when it is used, as misogyny and prudery would require me to be.”

Jenny Diski: ‘An Unspeakable Word Is the Word That Has to Be Spoken’

 

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