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Never Let Me Go
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by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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The bones of man. The brittle remnants of cosmic torment that once made him wonder if matter was Lucifer upward-groping back to his God.
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Sylvia Plath
“Once when I visited Buddy I found Mrs. Willard braiding a rug out of strips of wool from Mr. Willard’s old suits. She’d spent weeks on that rug, and I had admired the tweedy browns and greens and blues patterning the braid, but after Mrs. Willard was through, instead of hanging the rug on the wall the way I would have done, she put it down in place of her kitchen mat, and in a few days it was soiled and dull and indistinguishable from any mat you could buy for under a dollar in the five and ten. And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard’s kitchen mat.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Kathy Reichs
“There may be a serial killer out there, Jewel. Someone murdering women and slicing them up.” Her expression never changed. She just looked at me, a stony gargoyle. Either she hadn’t understood, or she was dulled to thoughts of violence and pain, even death. Or perhaps she’d thrown on a mask, a facade to conceal a fear too real to validate by speech. I suspected the latter. “Jewel, is my friend in danger?” Our eyes locked. “She female, chère?”
Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead

Kate Chopin
“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish.”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Zora Neale Hurston
“We brought up issues that concerned us as young feminists and womanists. Was Janie Crawford a good female role model or was she solely defined by the men in her life? Many of us argued that Janie did not have to be a role model at all. She simply had to be a fully realized and complex character, which she was.”
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Kate Chopin
“An alienated perspective is valuable in fiction because it establishes a new vision of a world we take to be solid and familiar.”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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