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A Ghost in the Throat

Quotes from A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

This is a female text.

This is a female text, composed while folding someone else’s clothes. My mind holds it close, and it grows, tender and slow, while my hands perform innumerable chores.

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This is a female text, written in the twenty-first century. How late it is. How much has changed. How little.

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This is the life I have made for myself, always striving for something beyond my grasp, while hauling implausibly complex armfuls. (pg. 72)

…literature composed by women was not stored in books but in female bodies, living repositories of poetry and song. (pg. 74)

See: Sonder

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