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Novelist Susan Cheever on women and power.

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“Women’s currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.”

— Novelist and biographer Susan Cheever, 65, who is the author of 13 books, quoted in a New York Times profile, apparently missing the irony that no one was writing splashy profiles of her at age 18.

By Katharine Mieszkowski

Katharine Mieszkowski is a senior writer for Salon.


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