Rebecca West, "Mr. Chesterton in Hysterics," in: The Clarion
Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the mind!
Allen Ginsberg, Howl (1956)
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1956,
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Ein fairer Preis, aber kein männlicher Preis. Fairness macht einen Mann nicht stolz. Bringt Fairness Erfolg? Bringt sie einem den Neid der Männer und die Liebe der Frauen? Nein, Sir, nein. Fairness ist was für Jungen und Junggesellen.
William Nicholson, Das Lied des Feuers (2002)
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2002,
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das lied des feuers,
erfolg,
fairness,
gerechtigkeit,
männer,
motivation,
roman,
william nicholson
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking.
Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101 (1994)
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1994,
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nikki giovanni,
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We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
W.H. (Wystan Hugh), Auden
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sinn,
w.h. (wystan hugh)
A daughter is a woman that cares about where she come from and takes care of them that took care of her.
Toni Morrison, Tar Baby (1981)
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1981,
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sich kümmern,
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toni morrison,
wirkungskette,
wurzeln
Hold back the edges of your gowns, ladies, we are going through hell.
William Carlos Williams, Einleitung zu Howl von Allen Ginsberg (1956)
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1956,
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hölle,
william carlos williams
Ja! Ich sehne mich nach einer erfahrenen Frau ... die die Arbeit im Haushalt von selbst sieht.
Uwe Steimle, aus einem Sketch über Kontaktanzeigen (2003)
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uwe steimle
I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m. / To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend / I woke up with a headache like my head against a board / Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before / I went in seeking clarity.
Indigo Girls, Closer to Fine (1989)
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1989,
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emily saliers,
indigo girls,
klarheit,
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That was the sole lesson of their world: How to make waste, how top make machines that made more waste, how to make wasteful products, how to talk waste, how to study waste, how to design waste, how to cure people who were sickened by waste so they could be well enough to endure it, how to mobilize waste, legalize waste and how to sepise the culture that lived in cloth houses and shit on the ground far away from where they ate. And it would drown them one day, they would all sink into their own waste and the waste they had made of the world and then, finally they would know true peace and the happiness they had been looking for all along.
Toni Morrison, Tar Baby (1981)
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Nothing's sadder than the man who thinks he's free when he is chained to the prison of his hatred and a dream gone up in flames.
Janis Ian, Black & White (1997)
An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
Whoopi Goldberg
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schauspielerei,
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Each man would have to free himself, he thought, and the best way he could.
Grange Copeland, in: Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life [...].
Henry David Thoreau,Ch. 2, Walden (1846-50)
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Not all who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by time. That is the life of men.
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
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1937,
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zora neale hurston
Das Leben war einen Versuch wert, mochte das Risiko auch noch so groß sein.
William Nicholson, Das Lied des Feuers (2002)
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2002,
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risiko,
william nicholson
Woman writers have to meet many of the same problems that beset Americans. They too are conscious of their own peculiarities as a sex; apt to suspect insolence, quick to avenge grievances, eager to shape an art of their own. In both cases all kinds of consciousness - consciousness of self, of race, of sex, of civilization - which have nothing to do with art, have got between them and the paper.
Virginia Woolf
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frauen,
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virginia woolf
Then the presumed neutrality of science, like that of language itself, gives way to the recognition that the categories of knowledge are human constructions. The fascination with point of view that has informed the fiction of the twentieth century and the correponding recognition of the relativity of judgement infuse our scientific understanding as well when we begin to notice how accustomed we have become to seeing life through men's eyes.
Susan Gilligan, In A Different Voice (1982)
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Voller Bewunderung und Respekt entdeckte ich die Arbeit meiner Ahnenschwestern.
Sheila Jeffreys (1990)
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1990,
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entdeckung,
frauen,
herstory,
linie,
respekt,
schwestern,
sheila jeffreys,
vorfahren
Genie hat kein Geschlecht.
Germaine de Staël (ca. 1800)
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madame de stael
Two-heading was dying out, he lamented. Folks what can look at things in more than one way is done got rare.
Grange Copeland, in: Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
Unsere Geschichtslosigkeit hält uns klein.
Alice Schwarzer (1995)
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1995,
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frauen,
geschichte,
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patriarchat,
selbsterkenntnis
The great danger [...] in the world today is that the very feeling and conception of what is a human being might well be lost.
Richard Wright zu Jean-Paul Sartre
Resistance is the secret of joy.
Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
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1992,
alice walker,
freude,
glück,
glücklichsein,
widerstand
Today. My simple passion is to write our names in history and walk in the light that is woman.
Sonia Sanchez, Poem
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erinnerung,
frauen,
herstory,
history,
sonia sanchez
The system gives you just enough to make you think that you see change. They will sing you right to sleep, then they'll screw you just the same.
Ani DiFranco, Waiting Song (1992)
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1992,
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scheinheiligkeit,
songtext,
stagnation,
wandel
These things we do to keep the flame burnin and write our fires in the sky. Another day to see the wheel turnin, another avenue to try.
Bonnie Raitt/Paul Brady, Luck of the Draw (1991)
Somewhere out there are millions just like me homesick for Eden heartsick at the memory.
Janis Ian, Searching For America (1997)
I am looking for someone who can take as much as I give, give back as much as I need.
Indigo Girls, Blood And Fire (1989)
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1989,
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ausgleich,
emily saliers,
geben + nehmen,
indigo girls,
liebe,
songtext,
suche
Nichts ist weniger natürlich, als sich als Frau zu kleiden.
Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
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1949,
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kleider,
natürlichkeit,
simone de beauvoir
Jump at the sun. You might not land on the sun, but at least you get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston
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erfolg,
glück,
motivation,
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)
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1975,
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frauen,
helene cixous,
körper,
selbstbestimmung
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 (1988)
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1988,
gloria naylor,
heimat,
mama day,
schriftstellerin,
sehnsucht,
zuhause
It is decided that the nature of woman is passive, that she is a vessel waiting to be filled.
Susan Griffin, Woman And Nature (1979)
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1979,
feminismus,
frauen,
patriarchat,
susan griffin
"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 (1899)
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erwachen,
feminismus,
kate chopin,
leiden
Zuhause: Wo die Revolution beginnt.
Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa
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feminismus,
gloria anzaldua,
keimzelle,
revolution,
zuhause
Lebenskunst ist die Kunst des richtigen Weglassens.
Coco Chanel
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coco chanel,
kunst,
leben,
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