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Loreena Mitzscherling
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in Berlin, Germany
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“It is strange that I am dying from a diseased womb, I who have never had periods, I who have never known men.”
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| Riveting and poetic, Madi Fiely guides us through a series of rooms in which we encounter life and hope, spite and anguish, while she points out what we have foolishly missed at first glance. Thoughts that riddle on a long drive across the country in ...more | |
“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
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“I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way.”
― The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 2: 1956-1963
― The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 2: 1956-1963
“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― The Robber Bride
― The Robber Bride
“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Graceling
― Graceling
“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
