Rachel Zucker famous quotes

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

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

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

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Hate #Halloween #I Hate

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

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

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

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

#Animal #Complicated Relationship #Humans

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Animal #Fascinated

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

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

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Writing #Subway

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Writing #Students

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Female #Body #Female Body

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

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Mother #Anxiety #Injury

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

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Artist #Comedian #Process

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Jobs #Important #Depth

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Mother #School #Advice

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Writing #Poet #Should

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

#Thinking #Class #Littles

I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Animal #Kitten #Bites

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

#Frustrated #Narrative #Sometimes

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Survival #Essentials #Underrated

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Prose And Poetry #Way #Prose

I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Husband #Ice #Keys

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

I think humor and terror are very closely related.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Thinking #Terror #Related

I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Too Much #Etc #I Love Food

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Sugar #Satisfying

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

I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.
-- Rachel Zucker

#People #Dresses

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

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

#Writing #Currents #Situation