Françoise Meltzer > Quotes

“Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.”
― Francoise Meltzer

“The burning of Joan was an attempt to deaden a great deal more than a young woman with pretensions of prophesy. It was also an attempt to eradicate the nascent possibility of agency in a woman, of a possible weakness in the dominant discourse, requiring constant vigilance and cleansing, lest it be uncovered.”
― Françoise Meltzer, For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity