Eilean *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ’s Reviews > The Position of Spoons > Status Update

On Rego’s Depression Series: “These long skirted women are somehow ageless, universal. They could be the Bronte sisters, or Elizabeth Barrett Browning, or Virginia Woolf, or ourselves, or our mothers, yet in Rego’s hands, as with all her girls and women, they are neither pathologised or shamed.”

“We are not born a woman, we become one
We are not born from marble
We become it”

“I tell you I tell you I can barely conceive of any writer in whom there is not a longing for both oblivion and applause; my childhood is the bone that broke my teeth and from which I gnaw at shards of memory.”

“I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror; I have felt the wing of madness pass over my eyes and an orgy of words pour from my lips; I voice my lament with full ardour at the feet of writers who are nothing but beautiful prisoners enslaved to the evil flower of fame which like a log in the fireplace always smokes the room”