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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Fear
Talents
Women
Kept
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Weapons
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Perhaps
Men
Talent
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