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“We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex”

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Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley was an influential American science fiction and fantasy author known for her feminist perspective and exploration of gender roles. Her works spanned a wide range of genres from science fiction to fantasy, with her most famous series being 'The Mists of Avalon' and 'The Darkover' series. more

“I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.”

Ifs Humans Form Situation Written Source Speech Deny Endless Posts Dimensions Poetic Domain

Book:Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics

Source: Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics

“As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.”

Ifs Way Sex Class Taken Taught College Performances Belonging Classroom Monk Taught Us Accountants Hygiene Semiotics

Book:Pre-faces & Other Writings

Source: Pre-faces & Other Writings

“We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.”