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with my face pressed to the earth I mix my tears with the earth.
“if Moses had seen the way my friend’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man”
― The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain
― The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain
“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it before, if no woman was ever that socially sacred creature, "a great writer," why do we think we can succeed now?”
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
“I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their best work.”
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
“I have served a genius for almost forty years. Hundreds of times I have felt my intellectual energy stir within me and all sorts of desires - a longing for education, a love of music and the arts… And time and again I have crushed and smothered these longings… Everyone asks, “But why should a worthless woman like you need an intellectual or artistic life?” To this question I can only reply: “I don’t know, but eternally suppressing it to serve a genius is a great misfortune".”
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“It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of original training. Either the work lies outside anybody's area of original training, or orthodox criticism (in Ellen Moers' words) averts its refined and weary eyes from what only feminists consider important or see as problematic. Much anti-feminist criticism of feminist writing can best be answered with, 'Yeah? And where were you at the time, twinkletoes? Writing your ten-thousandth essay on King Lear?”
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
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