“I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.”
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“Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.”
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“The women’s movement must realize that work is not liberation. Work in a capitalist system is exploitation and there is no pleasure, pride or creativity in being exploited. Even the “career” is an illusion as far as
self-fulfillment is concerned. What is rarely acknowledged is that most career-type jobs require that you exert power over other people, often
other women and this deepens the divisions between us. We try to escape blue collar or clerical ghettos in order to have more time and more satisfaction only to discover that the price we pay for advancing is the
distance that intervenes between us and other women. However there is no discipline we impose on others that we do not at the same time impose on ourselves, which means that in performing these jobs we actually undermine our own struggles.”
― Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
self-fulfillment is concerned. What is rarely acknowledged is that most career-type jobs require that you exert power over other people, often
other women and this deepens the divisions between us. We try to escape blue collar or clerical ghettos in order to have more time and more satisfaction only to discover that the price we pay for advancing is the
distance that intervenes between us and other women. However there is no discipline we impose on others that we do not at the same time impose on ourselves, which means that in performing these jobs we actually undermine our own struggles.”
― Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
“She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.”
― Les Chants de Maldoror
― Les Chants de Maldoror
“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”
― Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
― Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
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