"The image withdraws as ghost or as a ghost of the Idea, destined to disappear in the very ideal presence. It withdraws so as image ‘of'’, as image of something or someone who would not, she or he, be an image. It fades itself as simulacrum or as a face of a being [...] What remains withdrawing from in the image, or what is left in it is withdrawn, with this very withdrawn, it is, indeed, the trace. "
"She was no longer the calm maid, sweet in nature, with a somehow absent minded expression. She was the rebel woman, the one who would not cede to others the right to define her future and life according to social requirements and traditions and superstitions that had become laws"
Kalliroe Parren, The Emancipated Woman, 1900[1]