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Heroines QUOTES

Heroines QUOTES

1 " I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order--pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature. "

― Kate Zambreno , Heroines

2 " Sometimes I feel I am living with the Enemy. Sometimes I know I am living with the Enemy. "

― Kate Zambreno , Heroines

3 " I wake up and read although Nietzsche says that’s foolish. A sort of narcotic, reading. I read with my hands down the front of my pants—my mode of reading is masturbatory. Sometimes I feel guilty about my lubed fingers all over library books. "

― Kate Zambreno , Heroines

4 " Eliot was exquisitely sensitive to noise.
She was exquisitely sensitive. "

― Kate Zambreno , Heroines

5 " 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 (…) "

― Kate Zambreno , Heroines

6 " 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. "

― Kate Zambreno , Heroines

7 " She was supposed to fuck a god high up on his mountaintop, but she refused. She wouldn’t listen to Apollo’s reasoning. So he cursed her, a life sentence. He said, Sure, you can live forever, as many grains of sand in your hand, but that young lovely body will be gone, you will wrinkle up into nothingness. Who will love you now? Who will listen?   Eventually "

― Kate Zambreno , Heroines