For the Sake of Grace

For the Sake of Grace is a 1969 short story by Suzette Haden Elgin.

"For the Sake of Grace" depicts a patriarchal world in which women are virtually barred from higher learning. A young girl, in defiance of the example set by her aunt (condemned to live in solitude for attempting to take the poetry exam), desires to also take the exam.

Intertextuality

• "The Two of Them" by Joanna Russ took the characters and settings from Elgin's short story "For the Sake of Grace".

Publications

• F&SF May 1969
• Donald Wollheim & Terry Carr's World's Best Science Fiction: 1970
• Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #2: The Science Fictional Olympics, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Signet 1984)
• The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery, Norton 1993