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“Pensó que tenía que ponerse a trabajar sin perder tiempo, pero empezaba a sentir en las piernas aquella frenética energía de todas las tardes, que acababa por hacerle salir a la calle en un vano intento de gastarla. Aquella energía le daba miedo porque no podía encontrar ninguna ocupación capaz de absorberla, y porque a veces pensaba que esa ocupación quizá sería el suicidio. Y sin embargo, en lo más profundo de su ser, y muy a su pesar, se aferraba fuertemente a la vida.”
― Extraños en un tren
― Extraños en un tren
“No podía soportar el quedarse a solas en su habitación, de modo que salió a la calle y se metió en un bar. Antes de darse cuenta de lo que hacía, se tomó dos whiskies y luego un tercero. Vio su rostro tostado por el sol en el espejo que había detrás de la barra y se le ocurrió la idea de que en su mirada había una expresión malévola y furtiva. Había sido Bruno.”
― Extraños en un tren
― Extraños en un tren
“abogado de Guy se rió por lo bajo, burlonamente. Tenía en la mano los afidávits de los Faulkner. A Guy la risita le pareció odiosa. Siempre había odiado la forma en que se llevaban los procesos judiciales. Eran como un juego malévolo cuyo objetivo aparente no consistía en demostrar la verdad sino en permitir que los abogados se acometiesen mutuamente y uno de ellos resultase finalmente derribado a causa de algún tecnicismo.”
― Extraños en un tren
― Extraños en un tren
“Junio 12. – Continúa la búsqueda del asesino de mistress Miriam Joyce Haines, residente en esta ciudad, asesinada por estrangulamiento en Metcalf Island la noche del domingo. Se desconoce la identidad del asaltante. Hoy se espera la llegada de dos peritos en huellas dactilares que se encargarán de clasificar las huellas encontradas en diversos remos y embarcaciones del embarcadero del lago Metcalf. Pero la Policía teme que las huellas que se obtengan no sirvan de mucho. Ayer tarde las autoridades expresaron su creencia en la posibilidad de que el crimen fuese cometido por algún perturbado. Dejando aparte las huellas dactilares y las pisadas encontradas en las cercanías del lugar del suceso, los agentes de Policía no han logrado dar con ninguna pista importante. Se cree que el testimonio más importante para la investigación será el de Owen Markman, de treinta años, estibador del puerto de Houston y amigo íntimo de la mujer asesinada. El entierro de los restos de mistress Haines tendrá lugar hoy en el cementerio de Remington. El cortejo fúnebre partirá de la Funeraria Howell, sita en College Avenue, a las dos del mediodía.”
― Extraños en un tren
― Extraños en un tren
“At the onset of labor, the woman was placed in the lithotomy (supine) position, chloroformed, and turned into the completely passive body on which the obstetrician could perform as on a mannequin. The labor room became an operating theatre, and childbirth a medical drama with the physician as its hero.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“Finally, a woman who has experienced her own mother as a destructive force--however justified or unjustified the charge--may dread the possibility that in becoming a mother she too will become somehow destructive. The mother of the laboring woman is, in any case, for better or worse, living or dead, a powerful ghost in the birth-chamber.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“...how do we account for the fact that laws, legends, and prohibitions relating to women have, from the early patriarchal myths (e.g. Eve) through the medieval witch-massacres and the gynocide of female infants down to the modern rape laws, mother-in-law jokes, and the sadistic pornography of our time, been hostile and defensive, rather than 'protective'?”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“The command of Yahweh: 'Be fruitful and multiply,' is an entirely patriarchal one; he is not invoking the Great Mother but bidding his sons beget still more sons.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“If he is to know 'his' children, he must have control over their reproduction, which means he musut possess their mother exclusively...it cuts back to the male need to say: 'I, too, have the power of procreation--these are my seed, my own begotten children, my proof of elemental power.' In addition, of course, the children are the future receivers of the patrimony.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“My 'temper' was a dark, wicked blotch in me, not a response to events in the outer world.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“Institutionalized motherhood demands of women maternal 'instinct' rather than intelligence, selflessness rather than self-realization, relation to others rather than the creation of self. Motherhood is 'sacred' so long as its offspring are 'legitimate' -- that is, as long as the child bears the name of a father who legally controls the mothe.r”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“Miller identifies the 'hidden cruelty' in child-rearing as the repetition of 'poisonous pedagogy' inflicted by the parents of the generation before and as providing the soil in which obedience to authoritarianism and fascism take root”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“What I carried away in the end was a determination to heal-insofar as an individual woman can, and as much as possible with other women--the separation between mind and body; never again to lose myself both psychically and physically in that way”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“The body has been made so problematic for women that is has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“I feel grief at the waste of myself in those years, anger at the mutilation and manipulation of the relationship between mother and child, which is the great original source and experience of love.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“As soon as I was visibly and clearly pregnant, I felt, for the first time in my adolescent and adult life, not-guilty.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“My husband spoke eagerly of the children we would have; my parents-in-law awaited the birth of their grandchild. I had no idea of what I wanted, what I could or could not choose. I only knew that to have a child was to assume adult womanhood to the full, to prove myself, to be 'like other women.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“I would feel [my son's] wants at such a moment fraudulent, as an attempt moreover to defraud me of living even for fifteen minutes as myself. My anger would rise”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“The air-conditioned car and the cool look of things outside was as refreshing as an icepack.”
― Strangers on a Train: A Novel
― Strangers on a Train: A Novel
“Necessity for a more unyielding discipline of my life.
Recognize the uselessness of blind anger.
Limit society.
Use children's school hours better, for work & solitude.
Refuse to be distracted from own style o flife.
Less waste.
Be harder & harder on poems.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Recognize the uselessness of blind anger.
Limit society.
Use children's school hours better, for work & solitude.
Refuse to be distracted from own style o flife.
Less waste.
Be harder & harder on poems.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“. . . to understand is always an ascending movement; that is why comprehension ought always to be concrete. (one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.) —Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“Its activists have made strong political connections between knowledge of our bodies, the capacity to make our own sexual and reproductive decisions, and the more general empowering of women. If this movement began with women telling their stories of alienated childbirth, botched illegal abortions, needless caesareans, involuntary sterilizations, individual encounters with arrogant and cavalier physicians, these were never mere anecdotes, but testimony through which the neglect and abuse of women by the health-care system could be substantiated and new institutions created to serve women’s needs.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“in a curious and unanticipated way, we really do welcome the birth of our child. There”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution