A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together. |
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. |
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son. |
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. |
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news |
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty. |
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. |
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchical i |
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. |
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence. |
It's as though she was able to convert her rage to live under this verdict of HIV into an art that was actually equal to it. |
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. |
Life on the planet is born of woman. |
Lying is done with words and also with silence. |
Lying is done with words and also with silence. |