"Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice."

-- Emily Levine

#Objectivity Quotes #Voice Quotes #Passive Quotes

“Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.”
“In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.”
“In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.”

Source : Katharine Graham (2009). “Katharine Graham's Washington”, p.27, Vintage
“The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably our separation from the practical and enriching sense of ourselves as embodied beings. When we are alienated from the wisdom of the body, our lives become theoretical and abstract, and we are distanced from the direct, felt sense of living.”
“We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.”
“I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.”
“As a writer, I find it a literal impossibility to disengage from whatever the location might be, given how everything that eventually transpires as part of the ongoing narrative is informed by it. In other words, try relocating the stories elsewhere, and what's the effect? They almost immediately cease to exist.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I want people to smile when they hear my name. I love everyone. I want to help make it a better time for the kids after me.”

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