Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Kate Zambreno

Quote by Kate Zambreno

Work

Heroines

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Kate Zambreno
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

You May Also Like

“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.”

“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.”