A Heretic's Phrasebook

Surgical intervention, though too little, too late.

“We are the heirs, however, of centuries in which women, like words, have been considered symbolic objects of use in a masculine structure, linguistic tokens rather than wielders of words in our own right.”
—Annis Pratt, Archetypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction

“And I remind myself all the time now that if I were to have been born mute, or had maintained an…