zitate nr. 1-10

seit dem 30.07.03

"i am looking for someone
who can take as much as i give,
give back as much as i need."

indigo girls, blood & fire

"nichts ist weniger natuerlich, als sich als frau zu kleiden."

simone de beauvoir (1949).

"jump at the sun. you might not land on the sun, but at least you get off the ground."

zora neale hurston

"to write. an act which will not only 'realize' the decensored relation of woman to her sexuality, to her womanly being, giving her access to her native strength; it will give her back her goods, her pleasures, her organs, her immense bodily territories which have been kept untder seal."

hélène cixous, "the laugh of the medusa" (1975).

"home. you can move away from it, but you never leave it. not as long as it holds something to be missed."

gloria naylor, mama day,
vintage (1988), 50.

"it is decided that the nature of woman is passive, that she is a vessel waiting to be filled."

susan griffin, woman and nature,
ch. "matter".

"yes, " she said. "the years that are gone seem like dreams - if one might go on sleeping and dreaming - but to wake up and find - oh! well, perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."

edna pontellier, in:
kate chopin, the awakening,
ch. xxxviii.

did you know you were living with one of the great minds of the twentieth century? and the twenty-first?

ginger nach fertigstellung ihrer diss
alison bechdel, hot throbbing dykes
to watch out for, 112. 

31.07.03

ich gebe den frauen etwas, was sie nicht sehr oft bekommen: ein beispiel von staerke.

k.d. lang

zuhause: wo die revolution beginnt.

cherríe moraga, gloria anzaldúa