Elizabeth-Marie Helms > Elizabeth-Marie's Quotes

“And every time a song is done, it whispers, you can go now... you aren't needed anymore.”
― Kristin Hersh, Rat Girl

“Most popular accounts of science and many philosophical analyses are therefor chimeras, pure and simple. They are distorted and misleading as a history of art which regards paintings as natural phenomena of a special kind without ever mentioning the individuals lingering in their neighborhood when they first appear.”
― Paul Karl Feyerabend, The Tyranny of Science

“Thus the writing of ethnography becomes a magical act, no less than the creation of a ritual, the making of a spell, or the manufacture of a sacred object: the ethnographer is by definition a magician.”
― Sabina Magliocco, Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America

“Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn't even know he's been hurt until much later. Then he finds out. Then his dick falls off.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“But I like my stories to be true to life, which means there have to be wolves in them. Wolves in one form or another.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin