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The line reads as a memory of being shaped by women who lived among language, reading, and careful attention. It can be taken to mean that books and learning came through everyday female influence, not through abstraction, and that those figures helped define the speaker's sense of the world. It lands in a home where a child learns that words matter because the adults around them treat words as work and care.
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About Ray Bradbury
American author and screenwriter
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. He became one of the most celebrated American writers of the 20th century, and his work ranged across fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Bradbury wrote in several genres, but he is especially associated with imaginative fiction that blends wonder, fear, and social observation. His writing moved easily between the fantastic and the ordinary, which helped make his voice distinctive and widely recognized.
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Books by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
2008
The Martian Chronicles
1999
The Illustrated Man
2011
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1963
Dandelion Wine
1999