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Doireann Ní Ghríofa
“Remember this lesson: in every page there are undrawn women, each waiting in her own particular silence.”
Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa
“All the while, I keep one ye on Eibhlín Dubh and one on my daughter in her car seat. She grows in that rear-view mirror. Soon, her eyes are open as I turn towards home. Soon, her gurgles can almost be translated into words. Soon, she is tugging at the straps in which I have bound her. Soon, she is smiling back at me. This is how years pass in that mirror: soon, too soon.”
Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa
“Literature composed by women was stored not in books but in female bodies, living repositories of poetry and song. I have come across a line of argument in my reading, which posits that, due to the inherent fallibility of memory and the imperfect human vessels that held it, the Caoineadh cannot be considered a work of single authorship. Rather, the theory goes, it must be considered collage, or, perhaps, a folky reworking of older keens. This, to me --- in the brazen audacity of one positioned far from the tall walls of the university --- feels like a male assertion pressed upon a female text. After all, the etymology of the word ‘text’ lies in the Latin verb ‘texere’: to weave, to fuse, to braid. The Caoineadh form belongs to a literary genre worked and woven by women, entwining strands of female voices that were carried in female bodies, a phenomenon that seems to me cause for wonder and admiration, rather than suspicion of authorship.”
Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa
“We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime.”
Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

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“Being an adult meant watching many possible versions of yourself whittle into just one.”
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