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Kate Zambreno is an American writer born in 1977. Her works are known for their unique literary style and profound exploration of female experience.

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“To become so possessed by a character you begin to play the part. A sort of Method Acting that is also a conjuring up. Jean Rhys POSSESSED by Bertha, who she first calls Antoinette Cosway. In the novel Rhys unravels what led to her being renamed, being destroyed, going mad, madness in her novel as the death of self.”

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“If you are a woman—the flames are seen as too close. The flames of Virginia Woolf.”

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“She is bleeding Ophelia, not a tortured Hamlet.”

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“If Molly Brown was a real woman writer, she would probably be dismissed as mad and unnecessarily pathologized. We glorify our male literary hysterics who often channel women and condemn our female literary hysterics. They can play women, fetishize her excesses. Make fun of her frivolity. They don't have to be women. A colonizing or appropriating of the feminine.”

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Book:Heroines

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“My femme fatales, my deadly women, so often left to die.”

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“It's difficult not to read Vivien(ne) as this pathetic spectacle of illness and dependence. The ultimate grotesque of femininity, like Freud's hysteric/housewife (both Dora and her mother). But channeling her, imagining an interior life, I can sense her early inner spirit and see it squelched and doomed into sickness and submission. Under different circumstances and with more strength and less of a mother who crafted her as an invalid from childhood., she could have been an author. Maybe.”

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Book:Heroines

Source: Heroines

“In This Sex which is Not One Luce Irigaray asks: "Does Woman have an unconscious or is the unconscious?" She who represents a primitive myth, something of the unrepressed past. Blank, you can project anything onto her.”

Book:Heroines

Source: Heroines

About the Author

Born: 1977
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 54

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