THE DOUBLE LENS
by Lisa Mannetti
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
—Virginia Woolf
“Abbot and Bessie, I believe I gave orders that Jane Eyre should be left in the red-room till I came to her myself.” “O aunt! have pity! Forgive me! I cannot endure it—let me be punished some other way! I shall be killed if— ”
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
What do you know about this mendacity thing? Hell! I could write a book on it! Don’t you know that? I could write a book on it and still not cover the subject? Well, I could, I could write a goddam book on it and still not cover the subject anywhere near enough!!—Think of all the lies I got to put up with!
—Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Truth? I do not know what the truth is anymore.
—William Styr
