“(…) pero si me dan a elegir prefiero los dones de varias brujas buenas que conozco: propósito, compasión y buen humor.”
Source: Mujeres del alma mía: Sobre el amor impaciente, la vida larga y las brujas buenas
“Ya no temo mi vulnerabilidad, porque no la confundo con debilidad; puedo vivir con los brazos, las puertas y el corazón abiertos.”
Source: Mujeres del alma mía: Sobre el amor impaciente, la vida larga y las brujas buenas
“Whatever your opinion of frequent sexual congress, let us assume for the purpose of this study that sensual sex should provide an increase in personal happiness, which was a widely held belief during the era we are discussing. A visual expression of the data we compiled regarding the subject's sexual activity shows happiness decreasing as sexual activity increases.”
Source: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
“In this hysterical phase, it was, so to speak, the femininity of man which projected itself on to woman and shaped her as an ideal figure in his image. In Romantic love, the aim was not now to conquer the woman, to seduce her, but to create her from the inside, to invent her, in some cases as achieved Utopian vision, as idealized woman , in others as femme fatale, as star - another hysterical, supernatural metaphor. The Romantic Eros can be credited with having invented this ideal of harmony, of loving fusion, this ideal of an almost incestuous form of twin beings — the woman as projective resurrection of the same, who assumes her supernatural form only as ideal of the same, an artefact doomed henceforth to l'amour or, in other words, to a pathos of the ideal resemblance of beings and sexes - a pathetic confusion which substitutes for the dual otherness of seduction. The whole mechanics of the erotic changes meaning, for the erotic attraction which previously arose out of otherness, out of the strangeness of the Other, now finds its stimulus in sameness - in similarity and resemblance. Auto-eroticism, incest? No . Rather a hypostasis of the Same. Of the same eyeing up the other, investing itself in the other, alienating itself in the other - but the other is only ever the ephemeral form of a difference which brings me closer to me. This indeed is why, with Romantic love and all its current spin-offs, sexuality becomes connected with death: it is because it becomes connected with incest and its destiny - even in banalized form (for we are no longer speaking of mythic, tragic incest here; with modern eroticism we are dealing with a secondary incestuous form - of the protection of the same in the image of the other - which amounts to a confusion and corruption of all images).
We have here then, in the end, the invention of a femininity which renders woman superfluous. The invention of a difference which is merely a roundabout copulation with its double. And which, at bottom, renders any encounter with otherness impossible (it would be interesting to know whether there was not any hysterical quid pro quo from the feminine in the construction of a virile, phallic mythology; feminism being one such example of the hystericization of the masculine in woman, of the hysterical projection of her masculinity in the exact image of the hysterical projection by man of his femininity into a mythical image of woman).”
Source: Screened Out
“The pursuit of happiness is internal.”
Source: Fragments
“Lekarz zawsze uważa, że wie lepiej niż pacjent, a mężczyzna zawsze uważa, że wie lepiej niż kobieta.”
Source: The Mad Women's Ball
“Yet here stand women not simply accused, but already judged, sentenced and condemned.”
Source: The Book of the City of Ladies
“Then I am proud of you, jiggit, you are doing a man’s job!’ He’d used the pet name only the family knew, and so she kissed him politely and did not tell him that he was unlikely to see a man doing the job that she did.”
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight
“What do women know of war? Tucker had flung at her the other day. You are never called upon to kill. Sonia slowly walks away from the small light of the kitchen, headed toward the car. No, we are never called upon, she thinks. We are merely conscripted at birth.”
Source: Witches on the Road Tonight
“Kristina told me that the organization sought to dictate the needs of the community by the founder's "white, privileged standards" rather than to "empower them and see them as true partners to develop and sustain programs geared toward their needs.”
Source: White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color