Sublime

a cultura popular redefiniu o sexo terno e íntimo como algo entediante.

the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much w

My mother came as well; she was dressed theatrically in black, which by that time nobody wore to funerals anymore.

quando as mulheres invadiram em massa as esferas masculinas, esse prazer teve de ser sufocado por um urgente dispositivo social que transformasse o corpo feminino na prisão que o lar já não era.

lugubrious

She was Melissa’s oldest, boldest friend. They had gone to the same primary school. Hazel worked in advertising. She had a wide and glamorous smile behind which was an oft-foul tongue, and long, bouncing, half-French, half-Ghanaian curls falling down her back, the most beautiful, the most envied of their schoolgirl pack, the one the boys always wen

Sibyl—if

With the same mysterious force by which an ancient deity turned a woman into a pillar of salt. That is to say, a combination of magic and myth and belief.