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suppress

[suh-pres] / səˈprɛs /


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This breed of attack is familiar to women who write; Joanna Russ includes it among the tactics she discusses in her 1973 book “How to Suppress Women’s Writing.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2017

Hastings’s review deserves a place in the now-classic book by Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women’s Writing.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2016

An off-world feminist utopia confronts its own destruction in "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ, whose "How to Suppress Women's Writing" was a touchstone for second-wave feminists.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2015

Suppress your instinctive impatience, quiet the snarky voice in your head and allow yourself to recall, or perhaps to discover, the deep pleasures of sincerity.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2011

Suppress your appetite for the immature grape; shortly variegated autumn will tinge for thee the lirid clusters with a purple hue.

From The Works of Horace by Horace




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