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Grace would ponder this story for a long time, with great sadness, and it would cause her to make a clear link between education and dignity, between the hard, obvious things that are printed in books and the soft, subtle things that lodge themselves into the soul.

I didn't always get the feeling of wanting to stab something whenever patriarchy-induced name changes were enforced, but then I read Wide Sargasso Sea.

We are the educated ones, taught to keep tightly rigid our boundaries of what is considered real.