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Rebecca West, "Mr. Chesterton in Hysterics," in: The Clarion
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
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)
Hold back the edges of your gowns, ladies, we are going through hell.
William Carlos Williams, Einleitung zu Howl von Allen Ginsberg (1956)
Ja! Ich sehne mich nach einer erfahrenen Frau ... die die Arbeit im Haushalt von selbst sieht.
Uwe Steimle, aus einem Sketch über Kontaktanzeigen (2003)
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)
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)
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)
Das Leben war einen Versuch wert, mochte das Risiko auch noch so groß sein.
William Nicholson, Das Lied des Feuers (2002)
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
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)
Voller Bewunderung und Respekt entdeckte ich die Arbeit meiner Ahnenschwestern.
Sheila Jeffreys (1990)
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)
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
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