Maria

“Violence, for me, and for the women I chronicle in this book, is simply a political reality.”
― Nimmi Gowrinathan, Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence

“Our view of the female fighter has been obstructed by both the moral compulsion to decry violent resistance and a societal drive to divide categories of thought along gendered lines.”
― Nimmi Gowrinathan, Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence

“Do not all attempts, in our own cultural sphere at least, at escaping from the Judeo-Christian compound by means of a unilateral call to return to what it has repressed (rhythm, drive, the feminine, etc.), converge on the same Celinian anti-Semitic fantasy? And this is so because, as I have tried to explain earlier the writings of the chosen people have selected a place, in the most determined manner, on that untenable crest of manness seen as symbolic fact—which constitutes abjection.”
― Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

“Die Ganzheit ist eine Wunschvorstellung der Nervenzerrüttung.”
― Maria Lassnig, Maria Lassnig. Bilder 1989 - 2001. Kunstpreis der Nord / LB 2002