Lletra de dona és un espai de publicació i difusió de ressenyes d'obres escrites per dones, dins els àmbits tant de la creació literària (narrativa, teatre, poesia, assaig, autobiografia) com de la teoria crítica.
“The archive was an opaque hope, yet it kept slipping away as though it didn’t want to be found, plundered, excavated. It became outright seductive in its evasiveness, and it kept making clear that it didn’t want our masturbatory desire for it” (22).
“Tinc vuit anys. Ho explicaré tot a la meva manera perquè la mama i el papa m’han dit que ho expliqui a la meva manera. […] M’he estirat amb la meva nina i l’home que no és tan jove m’ha demanat que em tregui les calcetes. Jo me les he tret.”
I’m an artist of the hearth; dresses in tatters from flying sparks;
skin scarred from falling logs.
I love fire and the pictures of fire.
But I love dead fire best:
rolling in cinders until I’m glittery with flakes of ash
“Cinderella”, The Book of Blood, pos. 846.
John is a physician, and perhaps —(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)— perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -a slight hysterical tendency-what is one to do?