"The man read and read, moving his lips; now and then his whole body started moving and then the words entered him like spirits, and began to work their mischief."
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I think that we've enshrined a lot of cultural assumptions about women and their reproductive capacity in the terms for their organs and terms for things happening in pregnancy and their reproductive decisions, I guess. It's like a really messed up form of metonymy where the organ, like the incompetent cervix, the hostile or geriatric uterus, is standing in for how our culture is stereotyping women.
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We project consciousness into them in the same way we might project faces into clouds, or even the image of Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun.
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When that sentence comes into my life, whether I'm reading it to teach, whether I'm rereading it to write, whether I'm reading it out loud, even just now, tears always spring to my eyes.
Namwali Serpell — Fresh Air