literary fiction and feminist literature

Events take place, moods ebb and flow, people and situations come and go, but looking back during these rare junctures in which we are, for whatever reason, we are slightly surprised to find ourselves in the places we are, as though we were absent while everything was happening, as though we were somewhere else during the time that is usually referred to as our life.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.