Orwell takes this concept a step farther by stating that it can get so extreme that our own thoughts, on the most personal level, are being changed by ready-made phrases. ... This is the type of writing we might find in 1984. ... It is important to note that while Orwell takes shots at everyday language, political speeches, news publications, essays and pamphlets, but does not voice any grievances with fiction writing. ... This is an important essay (not mine, Orwell's). ... This would be true in both speaking and writing. ...

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Tradition in writing has always played a key roll in the originality and success in the literary arts for both men and women. ... The literary pioneers of this women's movement included: Abigail Adams who had a genius for letter writing, Mercy Otis Warren who was known as the most productive "woman of the American revolution", with works that viewed history and politics as a struggle between liberty and power, and Sarah Moore Grimke who drove one of the first feminist spikes in her essay Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman. ... In Woolf's essay, she stat...

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