“Silence becomes a woman.' Every woman I’ve ever known was brought up on that saying.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“Men carve meaning into women’s faces; messages addressed to other men.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“As later Priam comes secretly to the enemy camp to plead with Achilles for the return of his son Hector's body, he says: "'I do what no man before me has ever done, I kiss the hands of the man who killed my son."
Those words echoed round me, as I stood in the storage hut, surrounded on all sides by the wealth Achilles had plundered from burning cities. I thought: "And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do. I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and my brothers.”
― The Silence of the Girls
Those words echoed round me, as I stood in the storage hut, surrounded on all sides by the wealth Achilles had plundered from burning cities. I thought: "And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do. I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and my brothers.”
― The Silence of the Girls
“The defeated go down in history and disappear, and their stories die with them.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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