Sublime
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Satire in extreme times is risky. Choose any excess, think you’re wildly exaggerating, and it’s most likely to have been true. (Sympathetic murmur) I know.
Margaret Atwood • Old Babes in the Wood
Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
quixotic
Margaret Atwood • The Robber Bride
like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
You think you’re giant but you are such a small speck in the screwed-up world. This is not about you.
Barbara Kingsolver • Demon Copperhead: A Novel
How could she have known what a girl’s laughter does to a boy? If she believed the boardwalk T-shirts, a woman was a ball or chain, someone stupid you’re with, someone to lie to so a man can drink beer. If she believed television fathers, women were a constant pain, wanting red roses or a nice dinner out. If she learned how to be a girl from songs,
... See moreMarie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
fair land—let's call it 'Feminisia,'"
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
