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“Women have been monsters, and monsters have been women.”

Women Feminism Mythology Monsters

Book:Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

“Before Lamia killed children, her children were killed. The root of her violence, like the root of so much violence, is grief.”

Women Grief Mythology Monsters Child Death Lamia

Book:Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

“For women, the boundaries of acceptability are strict, and they are many. We must be seductive but pure, quiet but not aloof, fragile but industrious, and always, always small. We must not be too successful, too ambitious, too independent, too self-centered—and when we can’t manage all the contradictory restrictions, we are turned into grotesques. Women have been monsters, and monsters have been women, in centuries’ worth of stories, because stories are a way to encode these expectations and pass them on.”

Women Feminism Monsters

Book:Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

“The monsters of myth have been stationed at those borders in order to keep us out; they are intended as warnings about what happens when women aspire beyond what we’re allowed.”

Women Feminism Monsters

Book:Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

“Women may look harmless on the face, they said, but look at their snake hair and dog crotches and claws. Look at them crouched over a male victim, ready to bite. Beware their ambition, their ugliness, their insatiable hunger, their ferocious rage.”

Women Feminism Monsters Female Rage

Book:Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology