This week I am somewhat vindictive, it may be. Yesterday I presented you with an article in which I "remembered" you 5 poems written by women and in the article that I present to you today I bring you nothing more and nothing less than 25 quotes from women writers. Between them, Simone de Beauvoir y Virginia Woolf, two of my favorites in this verbiage.
I hope you enjoy them! And what are they talking about? A bit of everything: life, love, religion, children, etc ...
In female mouths
- Appearance has the fullness of reality, but only as appearance. As something other than appearance, it is error ». (Simone Well).
- "Women have served throughout this century as mirrors that possessed the power to reflect the figure of man twice the size of life." (Virginia Woolff).
- "In view of what I have seen, I undress, I undress myself and I support myself, I love this having what I do not have." (Glory Strong).
- "The fact that there is a privileged minority does not compensate or excuse the situation of discrimination in which the rest of their colleagues live." (Simone deBeauvoir).
- "A doctrine is useless by itself, but it is essential to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines." (Simone Well).
- «I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too keen a sense of the brevity of life and its temptations to censure others. However, I am not as undemanding as you think, judging me, as you judge me, for my loquacity. (Virginia Woolff).
- "I want it to come, but I don't want to get close to your voice and not get burned." (Glory Strong).
- "The wrinkles of the skin are that indescribable something that comes from the soul." (Simone deBeauvoir).
- "Nobody teaches children some essential things, like fixing a leaky faucet, bribing an official or cutting the dog's hair." (Isabel Allende).
- "I have always believed, and still believe, that imagination and fantasy are very important since they are an inseparable part of the reality of our life." (Ana Maria Matute).
- And you wish you were a poet; and you wish you were a lover. (Virginia Woolff).
- "In order for your right hand to ignore what the left is doing, it will have to be hidden from consciousness." (Simone Well).
- «Every now and then one is shipwrecked in educational gaps. When you have to hail a taxi you wonder why the hell they don't teach whistling from first grade. Or to degrease pots, get out of a stuck elevator, change a rubber or fill out a form ». (Isabel Allende).
- "What we imagine is also part of reality." (Rose Montero).
- "Writing is always protesting, even if it is from yourself." (Ana Maria Matute).
- «Poets, let's not waste time, let's work, that little blood reaches the heart». (Glory Strong).
- "Our destiny is a mystery and perhaps the meaning of life is nothing more than the search for that meaning." (Rose Montero).
- "The extreme misery that befalls human beings does not create human misery, it simply exposes it." (Simone Well).
- «Men can pride themselves on writing honestly and passionately about the movements of nations; they may think that war and the search for God are the only themes of great literature; but if the position of men in the world were staggered by a poorly chosen hat, English literature would change dramatically. ' (Virginia Woolff).
- Time heals everything, but it also burns everything. The good and bad. It rips from your memory things that you would like to have there. Time takes it away. (Ana Maria Matute).
- "A good writer can write about anything and can write literature on any subject, and a bad writer doesn't have that ability." (Almudena Grandes).
- "Who said that melancholy is elegant? Take off that mask of sadness, there is always reason to sing, to praise the most holy mystery, let's not be cowards, let's run to tell whoever it is, there is always someone we love and who loves us ». (Glory Strong).
- "It is legal to violate a culture, but with the condition of making a child of it." (Simone deBeauvoir).
- "He said that Christianity, like almost all superstitions, made man weaker and more resigned and that one should not expect a reward in heaven, but fight for his rights on earth." (Isabel Allende).
- "The difference between eroticism and pornography, apart from the etymological one, has to do with the attitude of the receiver of the message, it has to do with the attitude of the reader." (Almudena Grandes).
Beautiful ... it seems to me that I take it to my page ... a big hug ... it has been a long time since I came to see you.
Ricardo (Bichino Quintana-artist)