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“A winter storm. dramatic weather of any season often precipitates intimacy: two startled bodies seeking shelter in each other. On her livingroom couch Mrs. Moreno's bunched kimono rises & falls like a silken sea above her drowning Hispanic student.”

Love Desire Sex Intimacy Bodies

Book:Thirteen: Stories

Source: Thirteen: Stories

“I was the victim of both social orders: of Apollo’s waxing patriarchy, & of Clytemnestra’s last spasms of outraged matriarchy. My father Priam probably would have said: that I had asked for it. That no society could be expected to tolerate an individual who insisted on telling the truth.”

Truth Feminism Identity Mythology Prophecy Gender Roles Cassandra

Book:The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess & Prophetess of Troy

Source: The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess & Prophetess of Troy

“Mob is not the plural of man, he said. We’re dealing with a different species, that has kaleidoscopes in the hollows of the eyes. Where projections of violence keep rotating at increasing velocity. Until the prisms shatter with their own frenzy, & the blinded creature collapses in the rubble it has created.”

Humans Violence Society Rage Mob Riots Groupthink

Book:The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess & Prophetess of Troy

Source: The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess & Prophetess of Troy

“An alien principle took charge when men began administering nature. When priestesses whose moon-based calendar foretold the cycles with minute precision gave way to priests in women’s robes who reckoned by the sun, & left each year awry with one fourth of a useless day.”

Nature Society Feminism Gender Rulers Patriarchy

Book:The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess & Prophetess of Troy

Source: The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess & Prophetess of Troy

“I’ll never cease to admire the skill if not the pragmatism of historians & mythographers who manage to blend a number of small truths & probabilities into one large lie. Which hungry hero worshippers swallow whole, without the reservation of a doubt.”

Truth History Glory Myth Objectivity Subjectivity Historians Heros

Book:The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess & Prophetess of Troy

Source: The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess & Prophetess of Troy