“I ate that apple because I was hungry. I wanted what lay outside of Paradise, a world without the burden of perfection.Now you call all sinful women my sisters. I say, let them claim their own damn sins. The apple may not be perfect, but it’s mine.”— From Eve Argues Against Perfection by Diane Lockward
“The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.”— Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, excerpted in Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry, ed. Sarah M. Gilbert.
