Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.
A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems.
I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.
A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
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