In a 3.2 N.Y. Times column about Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary, a forthcoming one-woman stage show starring Fiona Shaw and based on Toibin's novella, Maureen Dowd quotes a line that sunk in: "All my life when I have seen more than two men together I have seen foolishness and I have seen cruelty," Mary says about the disciples of her martyred son. "But it is foolishness that I have noticed first." For some reason this line woke me to what I believe is probably a very sincere longing on the part of many strong women today. They don't just want more...
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