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I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.
Christa Wolf
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Christa Wolf
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: March 18
Died: 2011
Died: December 1
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Landsberg an der Warthe.
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Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.
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