Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.
Interpretation
Women's voices and writings have the power to influence and reshape societal narratives.
This quote by Carolyn See emphasizes the significant impact that women's writings have on the broader cultural and historical narrative. It suggests that every word penned by a woman contributes to altering the collective story that society upholds, challenging traditional representations and bringing new perspectives to the forefront.
In practice
In a speech about women's rights, you can use this quote to emphasize the importance of female authorship.
I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.
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