Torres and Lady Lamb the Beekeeper play The Media Club June 19th
“Breathless,” by Sue Williams
Torres and Lady Lamb the Beekeeper play The Media Club June 19th
“Breathless,” by Sue Williams
“The primary education of Canada is under the control and management of women. Is this a desirable or satisfactory state of things? We do not think it is. A boy as soon as he passes the boundary line of very early childhood needs to be “man-handled,” and needs it with ever increasing urgency. He requires the “strong hand” of his unquestionable physical superior. We mean no disrespect when we say that with the average female teacher this is impossible. During this transitional period, however, the normal boy, it may safely be said, never submits willingly to female authority. The increase in juvenile crime strengthens our conviction, that the almost total elimination of the male element from our Public School teachers is to be deeply regretted, and should wherever possible be remedied.”
-from Canadian Churchman, August 22, 1907, found in A Nation Beckons: Canada 1896-1914
“Our Feminized Public Schools”
"Alec Soth, photographer, Minneapolis: A few years ago Robert Frank said, “There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It’s just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn’t an art any more. Maybe it never was.” What do you think about this? William Eggleston: I don’t disagree with any part of that statement."
I didn’t play the piano for 10 years. A decade of slow death by greed working in the City, chasing something that never existed in the first place (security, self-worth, Don Draper albeit a few inches shorter and a few women fewer). And only when the pain of not doing it got greater than the imagined pain of doing it did I somehow find the balls to pursue what I really wanted and had been obsessed by since the age of seven – to be a concert pianist.
Admittedly I went a little extreme – no income for five years, six hours a day of intense practice, monthly four-day long lessons with a brilliant and psychopathic teacher in Verona, a hunger for something that was so necessary it cost me my marriage, nine months in a mental hospital, most of my dignity and about 35lbs in weight.
(Source: Guardian)
"In some two hundred pages, “Dialectic” reinterpreted Marx, Engels, and Freud to make a case that a “sexual class system” ran deeper than any other social or economic divide. The traditional family structure, Firestone argued, was at the core of women’s oppression. “Unless revolution uproots the basic social organization, the biological family—the vinculum through which the psychology of power can always be smuggled—the tapeworm of exploitation will never be annihilated,” Firestone wrote. She elaborated, with characteristic bluntness: “Pregnancy is barbaric”; childbirth is “like shitting a pumpkin”; and childhood is “a supervised nightmare."
- Susan Faludi on Shulamith Firestone in The New Yorker
(Source: newyorker.com)
"Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that’s how deep it goes they don’t want to know…The end goal of feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist movement, not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself: genital difference between human beings would no longer matter culturally."
- Shulamith Firestone
(Source: newyorker.com)
"Make art about life, not art about art. Art that is charged with lived experience is the kind of art that changes lives."
- Kathy Grayson
(Source: complexmag.ca)
(Source: inverse476)
"Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two."
- Louis de Bernieres (via quote-book)
"And my daughter called me one night three years ago—it was the first time she’d read one of my books. “You made me cry,” she said. “I guess you’re right—that’s your job. That’s a terrible job to have.” Then she hung up."
- http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/behind-the-scenes-of-between-heaven-and-here
"All good things are wild and free."
- Henry David Thoreau (via girlwithoutwings)
(Source: quote-book)
If you’re afflicted with a case of Writer’s Block this holiday season, Brain Pickings‘ article on the daily routines of famous writers might provide some inspiration.
In 1968, Birthday girl Joan Didion described hers:
“I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I’ve done that day. I can’t do it late in the afternoon because I’m too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages. So I spend this hour taking things out and putting other things in. Then I start the next day by redoing all of what I did the day before, following these evening notes. When I’m really working I don’t like to go out or have anybody to dinner, because then I lose the hour. If I don’t have the hour, and start the next day with just some bad pages and nowhere to go, I’m in low spirits. Another thing I need to do, when I’m near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it. That’s one reason I go home to Sacramento to finish things. Somehow the book doesn’t leave you when you’re asleep right next to it. In Sacramento nobody cares if I appear or not. I can just get up and start typing.”
(Source: vintageanchorbooks, via utnereader)
"There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don’t look, don’t smell, don’t dream."
- Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (via helplessyamazed)
(Source: quote-book)
