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“Disease is never neutral. Treatment never not ideological. Mortality never without its politics.”
― The Undying
― The Undying
“I did not then understand that we—the women of that academic community—as in so many middle-class communities of the period—were expected to fill both the part of the Victorian Lady of Leisure, the Angel in the House, and also of the Victorian cook, scullery maid, laundress, governess, and nurse. I only sensed that there were false distractions sucking at me, and I wanted desperately to strip my life down to what was essential. June”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“To this day, watching a woman mindlessly tend to one thing while doing something else absorbs me. Like securing the backs of her earrings while wiggling her feet into her shoes. Like staring into some middle distance, where lines soften, and where she separates the relevant from the immaterial.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
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