The women in this gathering of voices lived in different times. Not all of them had to contend with the same prejudices; each era applied its own forms of subordination.
Literal Manifesto: Printed Women is a tribute to these voices through the exercise of imagining what we would hear if we could sit beside them: what they would tell about their lives, what moments they would remember, which ones tempted them to give up or, conversely, empowered them. It is also a long conversation about literature, death, motherhood, love, disillusionment, nostalgia, and joy, as if we were listening to these women through brief phrases, full of the mysteries their lives revealed.
