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Every week, the editors of<\/em>\u00a0The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This week, we bring you Toni Morrison\u2019s 1993 Writers at Work interview<\/a>, Grace Paley\u2019s short story \u201cThe Little Girl<\/a>,\u201d and Sally W. Bliumis\u2019s poem \u201cIn the Women\u2019s Locker Room<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134<\/a>
\nIssue no. 128 (Fall 1993)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0I only know that I will never again trust my life, my future, to the whims of men, in companies or out. Never again will their judgment have anything to do with what I think I can do. That was the wonderful liberation of being divorced and having children. I did not mind failure, ever, but I minded thinking that someone male knew better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Little Girl<\/a>
\nBy Grace Paley
\nIssue no. 57 (Spring 1974)<\/em><\/p>\n

My old friend Charley that I\u2019ve known for 20, 25 years stopped me in the street. He said, I\u2019ve got something to tell you. Now, sit down. Right here. That was the steps of the Cafe Zipp in the middle of Macdougal Street. He put his hand on my knee. Then he said, now you listen, this is what happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In the Women\u2019s Locker Room<\/a>
\nBy Sally W. Bliumis
\nIssue no. 166 (Summer 2003)<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the tops of the lockers,
\nI hear a woman<\/p>\n

talking, talking.
\nJust the trail of her sentences,<\/p>\n

sentencing,
\nsentencing her listener \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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