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Euripides’ Medea

Women of Corinth, I have come out of the house fearing that you may find some fault with me.

Men do not judge with their eyes when, before they know the true nature of a person’s heart, they hate on sight. A foreigner especially must fall in with the city’s ways, but in my case, this thing which has struck me so unexpectedly, has broken my heart. I am lost, and I want to die. For well I know that man who was my everything had proved the vilest of all—my husband.

Of everything that has a mind, we women are the most wretched creatures. We have to buy a husband with a vast outlay of money, we have to take a master for our body.

Men say of us that we live a life free from danger at home while they fight wars. How wrong they are!! I would rather stand three times in battle than bear one child.

You have this city, your father’s house, a fulfilled life, while I, Desolate woman, have no haven from this disaster, no mother, no brother.

If I can find some means, to take revenge for these evils on my husband and the man who gave his daughter to him and that daughter whom he married, I ask you to keep silence. In all other respects a woman proves a coward at the sight of iron in the fight, but when she is wronged in her marriage bed, no creature has a mind more murderous.

Chicago

I always wanted my name in all the papers. Before met Amos, I used o date this well-to-do bootleggar. He used to like to take me out and show me off. Ugly guys like to do that.

Once it said in the paper, “Gangland’s Al Capelli seen at Chez Vito with cute blonde chorine. That was me.

I’m gonna tell you the truth, Not that the truth really matters, But im gonna tell you anyway…..Im the bed department, Amos was ----zero. I mean, when he made love it me, it was like he was fixing a carborator or something. “I love ya honey, I love ya” Anyway I started fooling around…and then I started screwing around, which is fooling around without the dinner.

Then I met Fred Casley,...