"Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women."

Source : Miriam Schapiro (1985). “Miriam Schapiro: Femmages, 1971-1985 : Brentwood Gallery, 1221 South Brentwood Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63117 : May 17-June 30, 1985”

Miriam Schapiro

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“Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.”

Source : June Hunt (2014). “June Hunt Hope for the Heart Biblical Counseling Library”, p.1070, Rose Publishing Inc
“I don't practice. It's a gift. It's talent. Obviously, I do it all the time so it's like I'm practicing, but that's just what I do. Sometimes I'll be in the studio flipping through beats and I'll do something quick and people will be like, "What the?!" It's natural! I don't need to be nice like that, I just do it.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.
“The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.”
“Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.”

Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House
“If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.”
“An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.”
“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.”
“It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.”

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