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Quote by Mona Eltahawy
“It’s the writer’s job to tell society what it pretends it doesn’t know.”
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The quote presents the writer’s role as bringing ignored truths into the open. “What society pretends it doesn’t know” refers to facts or problems people avoid acknowledging, even when they are aware of them. In this view, writing should challenge comfortable silence and make difficult subjects harder to dismiss.
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- PEN America — The PEN Ten with Mona Eltahawy
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- Official Statement
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