. . . 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)

Sandra M. Gilbert


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

Sandra M. Gilbert


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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)

Sandra M. Gilbert


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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.

Sandra M. Gilbert

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Because she couldn't knit she just crocheted

Sandra M. Gilbert


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till cancer gobbled Bob's esophagus

Sandra M. Gilbert


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what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen

Sandra M. Gilbert


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my grief followed you a whimpering spaniel

Sandra M. Gilbert


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