"Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades."

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Source : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.45, The Feminist Press at CUNY

Tillie Olsen

#Reality Quotes #Surface Quotes

“There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own marriages, lo those many years later. We have always wondered why there is not more research done on the children of happy marriages. Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is the truth: they have not spent a night apart since the day they married.How can we ever hope to find a love to live up to that?”

Source : Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.111, Penguin
“I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.”
“Marijuana addiction is a serious problem”
“Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.”
“We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”
“The earth is round, all the heavenly bodies are round; they all move on round or elliptical orbits. This same image of circular globe-shaped mini worlds orbiting around each other follows us right down to the microcosmos. We are even aroused by round forms in species propagation related eroticism. Why should I join the straying mass who want to make everything angular? I am going to pursue Galileo Galilei's philosophy: my world is also round.”
“At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.”
“That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.”

Source : Jerry Della Femina (2010). “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harb: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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