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Flashcards in Quotes Penelopiad Part A (competition/roles/wisdom/patriarch) Deck (36)
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Clever not beautiful quote

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clever but not overly beautiful

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Helen showing off quote

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I was not like cousin Helen who loved to make conquests just to show she could.

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Offer instead of beauty quote

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I was a kind girl - kinder than Helen, or so I thought. I knew I would have something to offer instead of beauty

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Clever quote

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I was clever…. but cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him

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Helen attention quote

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She wanted all the attention for herself

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Faithful quote

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Hadn’t I been faithful? Hadn’t I waited, and waited, and waited, despite the temptation - almost the compulsion - to do otherwise?

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Stick to beat other women with quote

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amount to […] a stick used to beat other women with

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Restricting/lack of power

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I kept my mouth shut […] I didn’t contradict, I didn’t ask awkward questions, I didn’t dig deep.

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Keeping right doors locked quotes

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Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the rights doors locked and going to sleep during the rampages

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Determined/patient

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determined nature, patient

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Semi-divine birth benefits

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it never hurts to be of semi-divine birth

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Father throws her out to sea

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When I was quite young my father ordered me to be thrown out into the sea

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Whispering quote

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it’s hard to know whether the whispering is coming from others or from the inside of your own head

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Arranged marriage

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My marriage was arranged. That’s the way things were done then

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Important people marriages

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only important people had marriages, because only important people had marriages

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Purpose of marriage children

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Marriages were for having children

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Purpose of having children (2)

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Children were vehicles for passing things along

to have a child was to set loose a force in the world

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Package of meat quote

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And so I was handed over to Odysseus, like a package of meat

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Widow quote

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Widows are supposed to be consumed with lust, especially if their husbands have been missing or dead for such a long time

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Mother’s life sacred quote

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a mother’s life is sacred

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Opening line/dead know everything

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Now that I’m dead I know everything. This is what I wished would happen, but like so many of my wishes it failed to come true. I know only a few factoids that I didn’t know before”

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Death + curiosity

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Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity.

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Quote on death nothingness (2)

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Since being dead - since achieving this state of bonelessness, liplessness…

It was glorious to feel the blood coursing in our non-existent veins again, if only for an instant

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Quote about sack containing words

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everyone arrives with a sack…each of these sacks is full of words - words you’ve spoken, words you’ve heard, words that have been said about you

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Making fools Odysseus

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What a fool he made of me, some say

It was a speciality of his: making fools. He got away with everything, which was another one of his specialities: getting away.

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Distrust

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It is to this episode - or rather to my knowledge of it - that I attribute my reserve, as well as my mistrust of other people’s intentions

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Self sufficient

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self sufficiency

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Looking out for self

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I knew that I would have to look out for myself in the world. I could hardly count on family support

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Little power in home quote as wife

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After a time I became more accustomed to my new home, although I had little authority within it.

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Maids responsible for household tasks

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running all domestic matters - maids

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Believing Odysseus

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Even I believed him from time to time

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Tricky and a liar quote (2)

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I knew he was tricky and a liar, I just didn’t think he would play his tricks and try out his lies on me

a cheat and a thief

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Don’t follow example

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Don’t follow my example, I want to scream in your ears

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Immoral Odysseus quote

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Of course I had inklings, about his slipperiness, his wiliness, his foxiness, his - how can I put this? - his unscrupulousness, but I turned a blind eye

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Immoral suitors

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The suitors stuff their faces

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Role as having a child quote

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“so you can have a nice big son for Odysseus” - “that’s your job”