Name: Lives of Girls and Women
Author: Alice Munro

A round pink pincushion supports a small plumed helmet, with pins around its edge and a trailing thread. — Original artwork

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

Alice Munro

A silver goblet with a chain looped around its stem leading to an open padlock beside it. — Original artwork

I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors, they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.

Alice Munro