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A selection of women's humor includes quotations by Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Fran Lebowitz, Molly Ivins, and Whoopi Goldberg.
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The Penguin Book of Women's Humor is a landmark anthology that proves there is a distinctly female way of being funny. Regina Barreca's extravagantly wide-ranging selections - by turns shocking, invigorating, infuriating and inspiring - span three centuries and include not only the likes of Jane Austen, Dorothy Parker, Muriel Spark, "Moms" Mabley, Mae West, Erma Bombeck, and Roseanne, but also some unexpected voices: Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Margaret Drabble, Emily Dickinson, and others. In stories, letters, verse, excerpts, essays, cartoons, and one-liners that address relationships, politics, fate, and the fierce struggle to survive and triumph, these women speak powerfully about the world and its absurdities - and laugh out loud.
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