Quotes Penelopiad Part B (feminism and story/loneliness/maids) Flashcards
Thread of own
I’ll spin a thread of my own
Story telling quote
It’s my turn to do a little story making
Not being heard quote
The difficulty is that I have no mouth through which I can speak. I can’t make myself understood, not in your world, the world of bodies, of tongues and fingers; and most of the time I have no listeners
Power because dead
I can say this now because I’m dead
Water metaphor quote
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
Loneliness in death quote
Asphodel, asphodel, asphodel… but a person gets tired of them after a while
Loneliness Ithaca (3)
dreary backwater (describing Ithaca)
A stranger among strange people
all alone in Ithaca
Missing Odysseus lonely (2)
The sun rose, travelled across the sky, set.
chapter called waiting
Maids being failed quote
We are the maids the ones you killed the ones you failed”
Scratching itch quote
from there to here you scratched you itch
Mistreated/misjudged quote
We did much less than what you did you judged us bad
Odysseus power command quote maids
You had the spear you had the word at your command
Poor circumstances maids (3)
We too were born to the wrong parents
Poor parents, slave parents, peasant parents, and serf parents
parents who sold us, parents from whom we were stolen
Loneliness maids quotes
If we wept, no one dried our tears. If we slept, we were kicked awake. We were told we were motherless. We were told we were fatherless.
It did us no good to weep, it did us no good to say we were in pain
Not valued (but not body)
We were dirty.
wanted to sleep with us, we could not refuse
