Daughters of the horse-leech, thy tempest out-thunders me.
source: Israel Zangwill, Without Prejudice, 1899. This description, at the time meant to be as absurd a set of charges and demands as could be placed in a straw woman’s mouth, today reads like a beautiful manifesto.
@zaiatzgeistbeth
Wait, no, this is exactly how this passage should be read? As a manifesto? Zangwill was a Jewish political activist who campaigned for women’s suffrage and Jewish emancipation… these women are clearly meant as feminist representations of the diverse, empowered desires of all women.
Well that makes it better!
I’m saving this to research for a project












