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Frankenstein is “a story of scientific hubris, a creator consumed by his creation, a male scientist trying to eliminate women’s role in reproduction” (Kupferschmidt, “The Long Shadow of Frankenstein”).
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Kiersten White
“But what one can do and what one ought—those are often two different things. Annie Bywell will be able to tell you that. In all one’s movements and transformations, one should be working with the directions of nature, not against them.”
Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan
It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?
South and West
Joan Didion
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