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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 Quotes
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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In this passage, Faith reflects on her one-night stand, years ago, with a younger Emmett Shrader. Faith considers the politics of power when it comes to sex between men and women—while Emmett wants to be physically inside of Faith, Faith wants to be inside of Emmett in a more psychological or metaphysical sense. She wants to possess the power he enjoys as a straight white man and marvels at “the way he walks through the world.” She implies that his effortless movement through the world contrasts sharply with the struggle to be seen, heard, and validated that women like Faith Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem n
Chapter 12 Quotes
“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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In this passage, Faith Frank confronts her onetime lover and current investor, Emmett Shrader, about the corruption and hypocrisy that has infiltrated Loci. Faith has already revealed to Greer, and thus to the reader, that she is willing to keep her mouth shut and her head down in the face of ShraderCapital’s public lies about Loci’s actions and initiatives. In this passage, however, Faith reveals her deeper motivation for doing so to her business partner—she knows that in order to “row the boat [she is] meant to row,” she must make certain compromises. In a way, Faith reveals that her Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantiu
“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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In this passage, Emmett Shrader, discussing the nature of Loci with Faith Frank, asks her if it’s “burdensome” to be who she is—to exist every day as the icon and beacon she has made herself into over the course of her decades-long career as a feminist activist. Faith, however, reveals what the reader has on some level known all along: that the wearisome and often futile nature of her work has worn her down over the years. One of the only things keeping her on the difficult path she is on is the validation and celebration she receives from the Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus
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Emmett Shrader Character Timeline in The Female Persuasion
The timeline below shows where the character Emmett Shrader appears in The Female Persuasion. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4
...begins telling Greer that after Bloomer closed, she received a call from an old friend, Emmett Shrader, a famous venture capitalist, who made an offer to fund a women’s foundation which...
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...and that they’ll need to assemble a team quickly to get things off the ground. Emmett Shrader, she says, has already rented out an entire floor of the building for Loci’s...
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Chapter 5
...lonely, she hears “heavy and male” footsteps coming down the hall, and soon she sees Emmett Shrader coming toward her. She has met him once before but is still struck by...
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Emmett approaches Greer and asks her “which one” she is. Greer is excited by Shrader’s presence...
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Greer agrees that Faith is “wonderful.” Emmett asks Greer if she’s a “Faith Frank groupie,” and Greer demurs, telling him that she...
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Emmett asks Greer why she isn’t out with all of her coworkers, and Greer self-pityingly explains...
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Chapter 8
...and has seen the many events and high-profile speakers coming up. Faith tells him that Emmett Shrader told them they needed to “go high-profile.” Loci’s summits now feature famous movie stars,...
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Faith finds the foundation’s “excesses” depressing. She believes, and has told Emmett repeatedly, that hosting rich women at conferences where they can get a mani-pedi doesn’t actually...
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The executive, Emmett Shrader, offers to take Faith out so that they can “explore the question of ad...
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That night, Faith meets Emmett at a dim club in Greenwich village. They both order drinks with paper umbrellas in...
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Emmett takes her hand and begins stroking it. Faith has been preparing for this moment but...
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The two have passionate, athletic sex—when they are done, however, Emmett quickly begins to dress and prepares to leave though it is past two in the...
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As Emmett dresses, he tells Faith that he feels something for her he has never felt before....
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The next morning, however, when Emmett calls, he does not bring up the ad. Instead, he tells Faith that his wife...
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...bestselling books and appears on numerous television programs. Every now and again, she thinks of Emmett Shrader—he has started his own venture capital firm and is now a successful billionaire. Occasionally,...
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...support everyone she can. However, when Bloomer folds in 2010, Faith feels dejected and useless—until Emmett Shrader calls and asks Faith to come to his office for a meeting. When Faith...
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The next day, Faith calls Emmett and expresses her concerns that the foundation will become a high-end lecture bureau that doesn’t...
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Afterward, Faith approached Emmett with a new special project she had in mind—to rescue a number of women who...
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Chapter 9
...Kim, but Kim insists she is telling the truth. She tells Greer that “they”—Faith and Emmett—sent Greer out on stage in LA knowing that the mentorship program was a ruse, and...
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Chapter 12
Faith emails Emmett Shrader to invite him to her apartment, and he knows from the terse nature of...
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Faith asks Emmett if it’s true that the mentorship program doesn’t exist. Emmett carefully replies that it was...
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Emmett remembers that Faith asked him to do a special project concerning sex trafficking in Ecuador,...
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Emmett recalls a meeting with his advisors in which they discussed what to do with the...
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Emmett, with his “flealike” attention span, never followed up on what had transpired in that meeting...
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Emmett reflects on his marriage, which had been the barrier between him and Faith back in...
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After his wife’s phone call to Faith, Emmett did not speak to Faith for forty years. Though he had his share of affairs,...
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Now, in her apartment, Faith tells Emmett that she cannot believe that he steeped their organization in lies simply due to his...
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Emmett is relieved. He asks Faith to confirm that no one knows anything about the mentorship...
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Emmett suddenly remarks that he has done everything wrong—he should have left his wife for Faith...
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Chapter 15
...is now close to eighty and still works at the foundation, though three years earlier, Emmett died of a heart attack while having sex with a young woman. In his will,...
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