"Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning."

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Source : Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.15, Springer

Laura Mulvey

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“What we learn to do, we learn by doing.”
“Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.”

Source : Letter sent to Adolf Hitler on July 12, 1934. "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, 1946.
“There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle”
“When you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience,”

Source : "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.
“Education does not necessarily make one wise?”
“Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.”
“We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.”
“Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.”

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