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“Some women fight and others do not. Like so many successful guerrillas in the war between the sexes, Georgia O’Keeffe seems to have been equipped early with an immutable sense of who she was and a fairly clear understanding that she would be required to prove”
― The White Album: Essays
― The White Album: Essays
“it was a crime to take anything too seriously, as oppressed as we felt by the adult and conventional world. All the most serious art is not only sad but hilarious. What other intelligent way to live is there but to laugh about it? The alternative, also respectable, is suicide. But how could you do that? Not only would it betray a woeful lack of humor, but it would keep you from finding out what was going to happen next.”
― I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
― I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
“To make an omelette you need not only those broken eggs but someone “oppressed” to break them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make fifty-one per cent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class. The creation of this revolutionary “class” was from the virtual beginning the “idea” of the women’s movement, and the tendency for popular discussion of the movement to center for so long around day-care centers is yet another instance of that studied resistance to political ideas which characterizes our national life.”
― The White Album: Essays
― The White Album: Essays
“I go for a long night walk, in order to get out of the factory day.
I walk and i wander through the network of the streets, neon lights and night crowds.
This woman on the corner, she was shouting at me: ''Ay, why are you so sad?''
Lady of the night, you haven't see me really sad.
Right now i am in my happiest mood.
I continue walking. How could she really understand the depths of my sadness.”
― I Had Nowhere to Go
I walk and i wander through the network of the streets, neon lights and night crowds.
This woman on the corner, she was shouting at me: ''Ay, why are you so sad?''
Lady of the night, you haven't see me really sad.
Right now i am in my happiest mood.
I continue walking. How could she really understand the depths of my sadness.”
― I Had Nowhere to Go
“I had come to believe that art must be disturbing, art must ask questions, art must predict the future. If art is just political, it becomes like newspaper. It can be used once, and the next day it's yesterday's news. Only layers of meaning can give long life to art - that way, society takes what it needs from the work over time.”
― Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
― Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
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