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"Neither genre offered me any kind of solace or escape. For women, mortal or divine, they only valorized absolute submission to the python coils of tradition and convention. According to them, my bones would be broken, and when I turned to mush, I would be swallowed whole, sentenced to picking up my husband's letters off the floor."

"I knew that I didn't need to die if Mrs. Roy did. My lungs returned to my body and breathed only for me. The valiant organ-child seceded and became a strange country inside her own skin."