A Sentimental Education Quotes

“I don’t know a damned thing about Susan Olivia Poole, other than that she was Ojibwe, had seven children, and had a spare axe handle. Those details have stayed with me, long after the more complex histories of Banff, New Brunswick, or Niagara Falls featured on other episodes. It’s a small inventory, but a powerful one: cloth diaper, metal spring, axe handle. The ephemeral traces of a life.”
― Hannah McGregor, A Sentimental Education

“…we hear nothing at all about generations of wives, daughters, mothers, sisters, and domestic workers who were pulled, willingly or otherwise, into the work of co-creation, and whose contributions weren’t even erased because they were never acknowledged to begin with. Authorship as a concept wasn’t invented for them.”
― Hannah McGregor, A Sentimental Education