Clare > Clare's Quotes

“Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger... To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit... Finally I write because I'm scared of writing, but I'm more scared of not writing.”
― Gloria Anzaldúa

“It is impossible to Name and Act against oppression if there are no Nameable oppressors.”
― Mary Daly

“What would it be like
to live in a library
of melted books.

With sentences streaming over the floor
and all the punctuation
settled to the bottom as a residue.

It would be confusing.
Unforgivable.
A great adventure.”
― Anne Carson

“Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.”
― Anne Carson

“You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.”
― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it".”
― Anne Carson

“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling