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“One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“No hysterical fits, no tantrums, just meditation, absorption, relaxation. This was playfulness in the company of his very own appreciative person. So I left them to it, not wanting to shame chef out of his imagination, for there was an awful lot of shaming for playing, shaming for letting your guard down that went on in this place.”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

“ideology is successful precisely to the degree that its views are shared by those who exercise power and those who submit to it.”
― Linda Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays

“Art-making, the very creation of beauty itself, was equated with the representation of the female nude. Here, the very notion of the originary power of the artist, his status as creator of unique and valuable objects, is founded on the discourse of gender difference as power.”
― Linda Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays