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3. Ibid. 273
4. Atwood,Margaret, Introduction to the Edible Woman: The Second words: Selected Critical Prose (Toronto: Anansi, 1982) : 370
5. Christ, Carol, Diving Deep and Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest, Boston: Beacon Press, 1980: 5.
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