"My mother could see my invisible wounds because they were hers, too," Bechdel writes, and she felt, in retrospect, that Helen was sanctioning her imagination, thus her future life as an artist.
The mother who sanctions her daughter's love life by telling her to use a condom is trying her best.
Sometime later Fitzherbert obtained a formal decision from the pope pronouncing her to be the prince's wife and sanctioning her to take him back.
She was told she would serve seven years before a parole board would consider sanctioning her release.
Devastated, Gemma reacts with an almost Medea-like intensity, at one point threatening the Count's intended new bride with a knife, and later, because the church sanctions her husband's actions, venting quasi-blasphemous sentiment.
Northwestern's decision letter did suggest, however, that the dean of Kipnis's school might still choose to sanction her for possible violations of the university's policy on "civility and mutual respect".
