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Rachel Vorona Cote

Rachel Vorona Cote
Rachel Vorona Cote is a writer living in Takoma Park, MD. She has written for many venues, including the New Republic, Rolling Stone, Poetry Foundation, Catapult, and various other venues. She was previously a contributor at Jezebel. Her first book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today, is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing. Find her on Twitter here: @RVoronaCote.


How Ramona Quimby Taught a Generation of Girls to Embrace Brashness

Rachel Vorona Cote on Having the Right to Be 'Too Much'
March 27, 2021  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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The Dawn of the Era of Feminine Excess

As Patriarchy Fights to the Death, a Cultural Shift is Stirring
December 20, 2019  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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On Jane Austen, Elizabeth Warren, and the Legacy of the Stoic Woman

Rachel Vorona Cote Considers the Miss Dashwoods
November 18, 2019  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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What Makes Somebody a Mother? On the New Season of The Handmaid’s Tale

Rachel Vorona Cote Heads Back to Gilead
June 4, 2019  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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Serial Killer As Instagram Influencer? On Killing Eve‘s Cool Girl Assassin

Rachel Vorona Cote: "It can be dangerous to hold someone, fictional or real, in esteem for superficial reasons."
April 8, 2019  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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Does The Handmaid’s Tale Want Us to Empathize with Ivanka Trump?

On Season 2's Conflicted Vision of Resistance
July 12, 2018  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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The Complicated Comforts of Marilynne Robinson

Could One Writer Help Me Reckon with Personal and Political Upheaval?
April 13, 2018  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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Justice for Maggie: On George Eliot’s Most Underrated Heroine

Maggie Tulliver Deserves Our Praise Just as Much as Dorothea Brooke
November 22, 2017  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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My Fictional Nemesis: Why Thomas Hardy’s Angel Clare is the Worst

Against Fraudulent Nice Guys and Fake Woke Baes
June 2, 2017  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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The Many Bad Moms of Charles Dickens

Dickens Believed Women Should Be of Selfless Service to their Family & Country
January 5, 2017  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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Are You an Anne Shirley or an Emily Starr?

In Praise of L. M. Montgomery's Lesser-Loved Heroine
October 27, 2016  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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Searching for Salvation in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

Two Pauls, Two Loves, Two Separations
April 21, 2016  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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