"To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be â€œreached out toâ€ in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity."

-- Irena Klepfisz

#Class Quotes #Feminist Quotes #Connections Quotes

“Right now I'd say my favorite fashion designer is Zac Posen.”
“I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.”

Source : "Plastic Man". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. October 14, 2001.
“You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace...That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.”
“The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.”
“Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.”
“I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.”
“We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.”
“We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.”

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