Sandra M. Gilbert Quotes

• “A life of feminine submission, of 'contemplative purity,' is a life of silence, a life that has no pen and no story, while a life of female rebellion, of 'significant action,' is a life that must be silenced, a life whose monstrous pen tells a terrible story.”

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• “Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)”

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• “. . . I understand that I was writing (recording) as well as seeking to right (to rectify) the wrong, and now, as I retell the tale, I realize that ‘I am still at the same subject’ still engaged in the same fearful and fierce activity–writing and seeking to right a mortal wrong. (86-87)”

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• “Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important processes of society, women begin to feel they are living invisibly.”

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• “A life of feminine submission, of 'contemplative purity,' a life of silence, a life that has no pen and no story, while a life of female rebellion, of 'significant action,' is a life that must be silenced, a life whose monstrous pen tells a terrible story.”

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• “If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)”

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• “till cancer gobbled Bob's esophagus”

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• “Because she couldn't knit she just crocheted”

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• “what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown”

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• “my grief followed you a whimpering spaniel”

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