Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for. |
She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women. |
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose |
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not "Am I really that oppressed?" but "Am I really that boring?" |
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. |
The main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing] |
The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra push, and that extra dollop of confidence. |
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. |
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done. |
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done. |
They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to |
They've removed anything you can tie a rope to. |
This above all, to refuse to be a victim. |
War is what happens when language fails |
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. |