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41 " Maggie has fallen down the rabbit hole. Maggie is choking Maggie is drowning in all the poison she has ever swallowed so "
― Kate Zambreno , O Fallen Angel
42 " But then other times Maggie is a very bad girl yes a very bad girl because she doesn’t care whether they love her anymore. This is when Maggie is filled with HATE. This is when Maggie rebels. Maggie has always had an edge on her that Maggie. It "
43 " Maggie is Ophelia. Maggie is drowning in the whirlpool of her own emotions. This "
44 " this is not the 1950s anymore you cannot simply put me away. Maggie "
45 " The sun that speaks to him. The sun and his daily communication with warmth, light. "
46 " Eliot was exquisitely sensitive to noise.She was exquisitely sensitive. "
― Kate Zambreno , Heroines
47 " This idea that one must control oneself and stop being so FULL of self remains a dominating theory around mental illness, and, perhaps tellingly, around other patriarchal laws and narratives (…) "
48 " All I had left was the precarious life of a writer. "
― Kate Zambreno , Drifts
49 " Every year the memory vomits up again, especially after every move. Love of our kind requires so much amnesia. Despite his eternal apologies. Despite how far we’ve come, how we’ve both changed, grown, our bond strengthened, one of now mutual respect, constant communication. For I love him yes I love him but ours is not a romantic tale of origins. Of how we came to be. "
50 " Sometimes I fantasize a scene. The "
51 " Like twin girl gargoyles. She monsters. Without speech and yet performing selves. The "
52 " I think it would be more accurate to say Kate Zambreno’s writing makes me fall into an ecstatic state. For "
53 " The writing inside the two manuscripts seemed to escape all traditions and forms with such velocity and horrible beauty I couldn’t breathe. "
54 " The stories were about the bodies of actual women living underneath the cover story of American culture, which meant that their bodies were cut and bruised and blushed and mascaraed and beaten and beautified and tortured and adored and killed and desired and silenced and screaming. I "
55 " It was as if writing had come back to life. Turns "
56 " My entire adult life, I have waited for novels that make me feel like something radical has happened to me. The occurrence is rare; most novels make me feel like something I’ve already felt for too long. "
57 " Bomblettes across the territory or art, interrupting our mindless consumer existences, reminding us that we are alive and in relation to language. II. "
58 " If by monstrous we mean faces and identities caught at the moment of their undoing. "
59 " Girl gone monstrous or mad from the projection of daughter upon her body, hysterical Freudian girl resisting the stupidity of the script placed upon her, acting out lashing out girl clawing her way to an identity. This "
60 " What does the story of a girl and her body literally becoming and unbecoming before our eyes, mean to tell us? Tender grotesque, fragmented whirl, blurry image escaping the frames? That "