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And what shall be the appearance of those first, inviting passages which, in the end, constitute the quiet edge that cuts all our clues? For a labyrinth must have a feel and a shape: why else go into it?
Dorothy Dinnerstein's classic book, The Mermaid and the
Minotaur takes its title from two
mythical semi-humans because these figures reflect the way that real women and men find themselves half-made due to the prevalence of mother-rearing of children. Her text sparkles with clarity and grace precisely at those moments when its subject becomes tangled and, in many conversations, graceless if not brutish.
The Mermaid and the
Minotaur, by Dorothy Dinnerstein.