Eva Figes famous quotes

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.
-- Eva Figes

#Childhood #Adults #Needs

grievance does not make for great art.
-- Eva Figes

#Art #Doe #Grievance

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.
-- Eva Figes

#Reality #Wish #Prejudice

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.
-- Eva Figes

#Fear #Done #Chance

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.
-- Eva Figes

#Eye #Looks #Gone

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
-- Eva Figes

#Race #Males #Prejudice

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?
-- Eva Figes

#Children #Husband #Father

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.
-- Eva Figes

#Men #Submissive #Wanted

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.
-- Eva Figes

#Fashion #Strong #Queens

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The adults were completely wrong.

A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

You don't need vision to be a visionary.