I was human after all.
-- Narrator (Pages 1 - 39)

Importance: While living out her final days in her private bunker, the narrator has a revelation that inspires her to write her own story. Throughout the majority of her life, notions of love and suffering have been foreign to the narrator. In this moment, however, she is realizing that she has indeed lived through these experiences, and is therefore human. Because she is human, she decides to record her account before her death.

That was, I think, my first intellectual pleasure.
-- Narrator (Pages 1 - 39)

Importance: As the narrator comes of age in captivity, she becomes increasingly desperate for the women to share their knowledge with her. When they refuse to do so, the narrator decides to withhold her secret fantasies from them. In this moment, defying Dorothy's order to reveal her secret empowers the narrator. She is therefore discovering the agency and autonomy she can exact through her intellect.

What's...
-- Anthea (Pages 1 - 39)