“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters” WorldWayWellsDoeDifferentDifferencesCreativityCreativeOur LivesEqualFunctionMereToleranceDenialFundSparksNew WaysAdvocatingCharterSustenanceTolerationDialecticsPolarity Author:Audre Lorde
“I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.” IfsThinkingPastMistakeConditionsFunctionDenialPerformingEmpiresIncapableHandicaps Author:Niall Ferguson
“Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.” Has BeensIdeasMotherChoicesTermAbilityPleasurePrinciplesVirtuePrideFunctionSexualityDenialConcretePassiveAutonomyEmbryos Author:Angela Carter
“The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.” WayStatesFactsSeeingFrontsFunctionConstantDenial Author:Bassem Youssef
“...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.” MeanValuesWorkBoysDoubtCenturyFineFunctionLibraryDenialSuspectsNew OrleansEmployersBabeLoathePublic LibraryGood EducationFear Me Book:A Confederacy of Dunces Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.” ValuesCenturyFunctionDenialSuspectsEmployersLoatheFear Me Author:John Kennedy Toole
“The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.” HumansMayEndsReasonPhilosophyRealitySpiritPureAuthorityUltimateFunctionPursuitDenialAssumptionSuspectsHidingFrankInquiryAdmissionHuman ThoughtHiding PlaceIncapacityUltimate Reality Author:Muhammad Iqbal