April 2012
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Iconography: Independent Women (link) →
This article from Bitch Magazine takes a look at some novels from the late 19th century into the early 20th century that represent women living in alternative ways. Some of these books show women who live without the company of men while others take a look at a woman as she struggles to free herself from the strict gender roles of their times. I’ve read some of these selections (and they...
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“I dyed my hair red today. I just want a little passion to hold me in the dark. I...”
– Tori Amos
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“Poetry keeps human beings open to the invisible, the hidden, the infinite...”
– Adunis, “An Introduction to Arab Poetics”
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“It is by writing, from and toward women, and by taking up the challenge of...”
– Helene Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa”
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“I wished that woman would write and proclaim this unique empire so that other...”
– Helene Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa”
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“I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather...”
– Björk
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“The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of...”
– Roland Barthes, ”The Death of the Author”
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“Truth be told, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the idea of...”
– Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth
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“This conception of a…narrative as a protection against death has been...”
– Michel Foucalt, “What is an Author?”
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Words I Didn't Know
Isomorphous - adjective
1) having similar appearance but genetically different
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“We know now that text is not a line of words releasing a single...”
– Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author”
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“While I believe wholeheartedly in young women’s agency and ability to...”
– Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth
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