"All is pure refusal in the watching world. It is not transient: if one doesn’t preserve in oneself a fragment of space or of time, then…. […] At least everything was going to be born, and the time for words would come."

Women and their lives around the 1940s; mostly working class, mostly surrounded by structural and/or male brutality, violence of men against women, the difficulty of escaping difficult situations, the lack of possibilities for women; Bourdouxhe's stories emit a sense of independence that strongly calls to mind Lispector's writing style.