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

Book:Heroines

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Heroines

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Kate Zambreno

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

“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

Source: Heroines

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

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Book:Heroines

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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.”

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Book:Heroines

Source: Heroines

“If we consider the call for "equal opportunity" in this light, it has a hollow ring about it.' Opportunity' implies 'choice,' yet there has never been any real choice for women. Their position as low-paid, part-time, intermittent, secondary wage earners has determined their role in the home since the beginning of he industrial revolution.”

Feminism Women S Rights Women S Liberation

Author:Anna Coote; Beatrix Campbell

“The idea of women as a reserve army of labour is double-sided, in a sense. Women are a spare resource for employers in times of expansion; they are also a spare resource for politicians to call upon in times of recession. When it ceases to be convenient to spend money on public services, responsibility is handed back to those two euphemisms for unpaid female labour, 'the community' and 'the family.”

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Book:Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation

Source: Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation

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