"It's interesting to think about connecting the dots within an archive in a different way than linearly or teleologically. It's a great delight to make art or use language or just have ideas, and put them together in a very unexpected way. Art gets categorized historically, geographically, by medium, not necessarily by concept or repeating imagery, or feminism or femininity."

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Chitra Ganesh

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“With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not think of launching a pre-emptive attack because it would set the whole Middle East and the whole world on fire for who knows how many decades.”
“Cancer is everybody's cause.”
“We will not have failure - only success and new learning.”
“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.”
“Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used sex as a child.”

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“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

Source : Essays of Elia "The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple" (1823)
“Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.”
“When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.”

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