Ascending Limb

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“It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I doubt that I would have taken so many leaps in my own writing or been as clear about my feminist and political commitments if I had not been anointed as early as I was. Some major form of recognition seems to have to mark a woman’s career for her to be able to go out on a limb without having her credentials questioned.”
—Ruth Behar (b. 1956)