Amanda

“I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.”
― Kate Zambreno

“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order--pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature.”
― Kate Zambreno, Heroines