"In patriarchal western culture [...] the text's author is a father, a progenitor, a procreator, an aesthetic patriarch, whose pen is an instrument of generative power like his penis. [...] If the pen is a metaphorical penis, from what organ can females generate texts?"
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar: The Madwoman in the Attic: the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, New Haven, 1979, 6-7.
