SF came out better than GM--at least insofar as that she was not totally destroyed by her creation--my father was a New Englander, and in his home town, people were evenly divided, either taking her work as a personal attack on everything they held sacred, or applauding her for having the courage to expose small town hypocrisy--

Anyway, both SF and GM figure prominently in Womens Studies, because after all these years, their writing still hits hard--

As to art and lives, it is very interesting to see what is still being talked about, and what has been cast aside. In a certain way,   a lot of what I remember is being rewritten--the real feeling of the times is being forgotten, and it is being recast to reflect what people want to remember.

Our obligation may simply be to tell what we know to have been true.