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“X was not a willing housewife. X remained unmoved by squalling infants, would not wear skirts that swaddled the stride, had no desire to be pursued by the hot breath of young men, failed to enjoy domestic chores, and possessed none of the decorous modesty of maidenhood.”

Book:After Sappho

Source: After Sappho

“But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us.”

Power Fate Feminism Oppression

Book:After Sappho

Source: After Sappho

“A poet is someone who who swims inexplicably away from the shore, only to arrive at an island of her own invention”

Poetry Freedom Creativity Feminism Poets

Book:After Sappho

Source: After Sappho

“…the only thing she feared was compromise, the soothing voice that licks down rage until it is nothing but a small smooth lump in your hand.”

Power Feminism Influence Anger Rage Compromise

Book:After Sappho

Source: After Sappho

“Aurel hoped that women writers would disobey the laws that bound men’s books. It was time for women to take language for themselves, Aurel said, even one word at a time, to take their own names and become. To become even one word.”

Feminism Female Writers

Book:After Sappho

Source: After Sappho

“A poet is always living in kletic time, whatever her century. She is calling out, she is waiting. She lies down in the shade of the future and drowses among its roots. Her case is the genitive of remembering.”

Book:After Sappho

Source: After Sappho