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Eleanor Guthrie Memorial Week, Day 2: Most Memorable/Favorite Quote.

_{For so long, I thought I knew what I was. A daughter who usurped her father. A woman who had taken control of a wild place. Scott was proof of that. The one who saw me that way, too, who substantiated it. And all that time, all he saw was a girl so ambitious… she would never doubt his story. So, she would continue to play the part. Draw everyone’s attention away from himself. You did do all those things. I know I did. But always with a man behind me doing his damnedest to bend it all to his benefit. My father, Scott, Charles, you. So many goddamn men here. Too many goddamn men here.}