"Ironically, it was patriarchy that afforded Dickinson time to write and think."
A. Fulton, page 132
"Feeling as Foreign Language..."
"A little reading on the development of obstetrics convinces one--and it is an astounding knowledge-- of the overwhelming dread with which women historically viewed childbirth."
A. Fulton, page 133
"Feeling as Foreign Language..."
"Of all the forms of male dominance, perhaps the most evident to Dickinson was patrilinaeage, 'the reckoning of dissent and inheritance in the male line.'"
A. Fulton, page 134
"Feeling as Foreign Language..."
"In fact, Dickinson is not without her descendants, but they are the heirs unapparent: favored sons who have been awarded steadier pedigrees or orphaned females sans genealogy."
A. Fulton, page 135
"Feeling as Foreign Language..."
"When they came to America, they opened a delicatessen in Springfield, Massachusetts. Miss Emily used to go there on the q.t. for gherkins. She thought she was pregnant. She was! With theology, poetry and philosophy."
C. Simic qtd by A. Fulton, page 136
"Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangenes"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845420.Feeling_as_a_Foreign_Language
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