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" Ne devrait-on pas essayer une bonne fois, pour voir, de remplacer dans les grands modèles de la littérature universelle les hommes par les femmes? Achille, Hercule, Ulysse, Oedipe, Agamemnon, Jésus, le roi Lear, Faust, Julien Sorel, Wilhelm Meister.
Des femmes agissantes, violentes, clairvoyantes? Elles passent à travers cette grille de la littérature. C'est ce qu'on appelle "réalisme". Toute l'existence de la femme jusqu'à nos jours était irréaliste. "
― Christa Wolf , Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
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" Does Medea still have the power to retaliate, or has she been rendered harmless? Fear, admiration, envy, lust and hatred waltz hand-in-hand, for whatever else she is, Medea is not a nobody: beautiful, high-ranking, reckless, intelligent and skilled, she cannot be simply dismissed. "
― Christa Wolf , Medea
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" I’ve seen what is interred with them so that they can get through the journey into the realm of the dead, and no doubt also so that they can buy their way in, gold, jewelry, food, even horses, sometimes servants as well; since then, I can see this whole glorious Corinth only as the fleeting reflection of that eternal necropolis, and it seems to me that they reign here too, the dead. Or what reigns is the fear of death. And I ask myself whether I shouldn’t have stayed in Colchis. "
― Christa Wolf , Medea