"‘From a male point of view, women who reject the submissive silences of domesticity have been seen as terrible objects- Gorgons, Sirens, Scyllas, serpent-Lamias, Mothers of Death or Goddesses of Night. But from a female point of view the monster woman is simply a woman who seeks the power of self-articulation.’ "

- the Madwoman in the Attic, Gilbert & Gubar