bluebeardsbride: dearorpheus:bluebeardsbride: — Angela Carter, from The Sadeian Woman and the Ideolo
bluebeardsbride: dearorpheus: bluebeardsbride: — Angela Carter, from The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography, c. 1978. In many ways, women are death’s natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women “give birth astride of a grave.” — Caitlin Doughty, from Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory — Samantha Hunt, interviewed by The New Yorker — Claudia Dey, ‘Mothers as Makers of Death’ -- source link