The Gaze Quotes

“​Âdem ile Havva: Âdem ile Havva, yasak elmanın tadına varınca, farklılıklarını gördüler ilk defa. Utanıp incir yapraklarıyla örtmek istediler çıplaklıklarını. Ama birinde bir, ötekinde üç incir yaprağı vardı. Sayı saymayı da öğrenince, bir daha hiç aynı olamadılar.”
― Elif Shafak, The Gaze

“One of the worst things about aging was that no one looks at you anymore. You spend half a lifetime taking in the gaze, building part of your identity around it, and then the gaze, tenuous to begin with, disappears and you're removed from the larger network of physical desire.”
― Anne Gisleson, The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading

“One of the most liberating things about aging... not focusing on the gaze anymore, you have more energy to focus on yourself.”
― Anne Gisleson, The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading

“As Mullan and Marvin say, in a line of theirs I finally agree with, 'Zoos represent the power of human beings to command the presence of living creatures which [sic] would normally absent themselves from human gaze.'

I go to a zoo. I see animals on display. I push a button and hear: 'All the animals in the zoo are eagerly awaiting you.' I come home. I open a newspaper and see an article titled, 'Animal Planet: From India’s famed camel fair to Indonesia’s fierce Komodo dragons—all the world’s a zoo.' And the subhead, large font, boldface: 'Animal World Awaits.' For whom? For you, of course.”
― Derrick Jensen, Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos