Rachel Zucker Quotes

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• Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

  Rachel Zucker

  Girl, Halloween, Mean

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• I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

  Rachel Zucker

  Halloween, Dressing Up, Remember

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• I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

  Rachel Zucker

  Halloween, Doors, Stranger

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• I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

  Rachel Zucker

  Hate, Halloween, I Hate

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• I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

  Rachel Zucker

  Prose And Poetry, Way, Prose

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• I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

  Rachel Zucker

  Thinking, Trying, Movement

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• I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

  Rachel Zucker

  Dark, Views, World

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• Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

  Rachel Zucker

  Survival, Essentials, Underrated

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• When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.

  Rachel Zucker

  Mean, Thinking, Editing

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• I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

  Rachel Zucker

  Animal, Complicated Relationship, Humans

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• I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

  Rachel Zucker

  Animal, Fascinated

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• I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

  Rachel Zucker

  Thinking, Animal, World

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• Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.

  Rachel Zucker

  Prayer, Book, Memorable

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• I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

  Rachel Zucker

  Struggle, Silent, Accepting

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• I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

  Rachel Zucker

  Writing, Students

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• My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

  Rachel Zucker

  Female, Body, Female Body

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• Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

  Rachel Zucker

  World, Influence

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• It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

  Rachel Zucker

  Writing, Currents, Situation

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• I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

  Rachel Zucker

  Animal, Wish, Longing

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• Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

  Rachel Zucker

  Thinking, Class, Littles

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• I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.

  Rachel Zucker

  Animal, Kitten, Bites

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• I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

  Rachel Zucker

  Frustrated, Narrative, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think humor and terror are very closely related.

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  Thinking, Terror, Related

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• I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.

  Rachel Zucker

  Halloween, Dressing Up, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

  Rachel Zucker

  Fall, People, Laughing

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