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The wealthy head of ShraderCapital, the investment firm which backs Faith Frank’s organization, Loci. It is revealed in a series of flashbacks that Faith and Emmett have known each other for several decades—they slept together when Faith and her fellow editors at Bloomer were trying to persuade Shrader and his partners at Nabisco to purchase ad space at the magazine. Shrader’s wife found out about the brief affair, though, and so Shrader never invested in the magazine. Years later, once Bloomer folds, Shrader invites Faith to his office for a meeting and offers to help her establish a women’s foundation. Though Emmett’s intentions are more or less good, his firm, ShraderCapital, becomes increasingly stingy with the resources it offers to Loci. Eventually, it is revealed that the Ecuadorian mentorship program which ShraderCapital purportedly backed on behalf of Loci never even existed. Emmett eventually dies of a heart attack while having “athletic” sex with a young woman. Although he stipulated in his will that Loci should continue, the “people upstairs” at ShraderCapital reduce Loci’s budget gradually until it becomes nothing but a “low-level speakers’ forum.”
Emmett Shrader Quotes in The Female Persuasion
The The Female Persuasion quotes below are all either spoken by Emmett Shrader or refer to Emmett Shrader. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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In bed Emmett smiled lazily, opening his arms and enclosing her. “Come here,” he said, as if she weren’t already right there. But he wanted her even closer, wanted to be inside her at once, an idea that she thought she understood in that moment, because she not only wanted him inside her, she wanted to be inside him in some way too. Maybe even to be him. She wanted to inhabit his confidence, his style, the way he walked through the world, which was so different from the way she did.
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Chapter 12
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“We were all put on this earth to row the boats we were meant to row,” she said. “I work for women. That’s what I do. And I am going to keep doing it. I have no idea if this Ecuador story will ever leak. If it does, it will be an embarrassment, and perhaps it will shut us down. But the bottom line is that I’m not going anywhere.”
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“It must be a burden to you to be the most important person to people who aren’t all that important to you,” he said.
“I’m not sure I agree with your interpretation. I get a lot from them too, remember.”
“What do you get?” he asked. “I’m curious.”
“Well, they keep me in the world,” she said, and that was all she wanted to say.
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Emmett Shrader Quotes in The Female Persuasion
The The Female Persuasion quotes below are all either spoken by Emmett Shrader or refer to Emmett Shrader. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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In bed Emmett smiled lazily, opening his arms and enclosing her. “Come here,” he said, as if she weren’t already right there. But he wanted her even closer, wanted to be inside her at once, an idea that she thought she understood in that moment, because she not only wanted him inside her, she wanted to be inside him in some way too. Maybe even to be him. She wanted to inhabit his confidence, his style, the way he walked through the world, which was so different from the way she did.
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Chapter 12
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“We were all put on this earth to row the boats we were meant to row,” she said. “I work for women. That’s what I do. And I am going to keep doing it. I have no idea if this Ecuador story will ever leak. If it does, it will be an embarrassment, and perhaps it will shut us down. But the bottom line is that I’m not going anywhere.”
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“It must be a burden to you to be the most important person to people who aren’t all that important to you,” he said.
“I’m not sure I agree with your interpretation. I get a lot from them too, remember.”
“What do you get?” he asked. “I’m curious.”
“Well, they keep me in the world,” she said, and that was all she wanted to say.
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