The Anger Issue: Women’s Writing and Anger in Ireland
Journal: Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory
“Women are really angry. I am. And it’s not that I spend my life charging round in a rage, but I do feel a really deep, burning sense of injustice at the way women are treated in our world and the way that I’ve been treated in the world and I want to write about that. Guilt was the only thing that women were allowed to write about. Anger was a male emotion and it was appropriate only to men. Angry women were crazy,…