Letters
Grown out of Professor Trisha Herrera’s Women’s Literature workshop and Professor Katherine J. Nigh’s theater production of Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando at Pasadena City College, here is a collection of letters by women authors. Authors who explore the range of human challenges through the medium of the letter.
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Iris Chang
I know that my actions will transfer some of this pain to others, indeed those who love me the most. Please forgive me.
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Eve Babitz
Only in London and New York are the people allowed to have money and loll around doing nothing. In L.A., no.
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Sylvia Plath
Also, Paul is ridiculously smug about his celibate state; the flesh always embarrasses them so; they divide it completely from the soul; flesh means sin, nothing else; all men, because of Adam are born in sin, conceived in sin, etc.
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Carson McCullers
Your letter came this morning, and I have read it many times. It is a hard letter to answer, David. Some parts are ambiguous, and you do not altogether make clear your own feelings.
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Zora Neale Hurston
Know what I thought of? A Negro art colony. You, and Wallie, and Aaron Douglas and Bruce and me and all our crowd.
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Vita Sackville-West
At first you think she is plain; then a sort of spiritual beauty imposes itself on you, and you find a fascination in watching her.