Quotes
“She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 📚💬
Through these grinding 18 months, we’ve managed our kids’ lives as best we could while abandoning our own.
there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to my child from the time I spend thinking about my writing, or actually doing it.
Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood 🔖📚💬
Don’t think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train for reality. It always has been, after all.
💬🔖 “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than writing.
Catapult | On Writing (with a Day Job) | Richard Mirabella catapult.co
💬📚 “Harrow would be tripping over herself for her whole existence, a frictionless hoop of totally f-cking up.” - Tamsyn Muir, HARROW THE NINTH #relatable
💬📚 “Why have I surrendered so much of my present self to an abstract future self that may never exist? Why have I made my present happiness contingent on my future happiness?” Joseph P. Fisher in SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY
💬📚 “If you cannot bear our pain, you are not fit to carry our strength.” WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER, Leigh Bardugo
💬📺 “No one likes having a curse, but if you take the right steps, it’s manageable.” - Eda the Owl Lady, The Owl House Season 1 Episode 4, “The Intruder”
💬📚 “The graduate program… hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual development.” - Rachel Leventhal-Weiner in Succeeding Outside of the Academy
💬🔖📚 Kate Zambreno on her new book "To Write as if Already Dead" - Los Angeles Times
The postpartum experience isn’t just expensive; it can also be one of psychic trauma and creative crisis. Someone who was a person becomes a mother. “You’re not a person. You don’t have a name,” says Zambreno. This feeling of erasure is a current that runs through her work, reaching peak intensity in “To Write as if Already Dead.” “I need to restore myself after being made into a ghost,” Zambreno says. “I always feel like writing the most when I’m being made invisible.”
Kate Zambreno on her new book "To Write as if Already Dead" - Los Angeles Times latimes.com
📚💬 “We learn to wring magic from the ordinary… When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.” Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo, p. 460
📚💬 I’ve heard a lot about the excellent disability representation in the Six of Crows duology. Obviously Kaz is phenomenal; Wylan is awesome, too. This quote is what Wylan thinks about how Kaz and the Dregs treat him. It’s pure asset-based treatment and I love it. “They valued the things he could do instead of punishing him for the things he couldn’t.”
📚 In Crooked Kingdom, Inej thinks about her hope that she and Kaz could be “more than two wary creatures united by their distrust of the world” and I’m wondering how does @LBardugo know about my marriage? 💬
Frank Oz, on Miss Piggy:
She has a lot of vulnerability, which she has to hide, because of her need to be a superstar.
Quoted in Of Muppets and Men by Christopher Finch 💬📚📺🐸
Kermit, while he is no saint, has achieved a wonderful equilibrium in which a common sense and a hunger for the absurd are nicely balanced. Were he to represent common sense only, he would be a prig; if he represented only hunger for the absurd, he would just be another of the show’s eccentrics. It is the fact that he has managed to embrace both extremes that enables him to function as he does.
Christopher Finch, Of Muppets and Men 💬📚📺🐸
What we do is chatacter comedy.
Jerry Juhl, head writer of The Muppet Show, quoted in Of Muppets and Men: The Making of the Muppet Show by Christopher Finch 💬📚📺🐸
“The academy is not designed to accommodate women, families, or the demands of modern life… Settling for mediocrity in everything but academic work is an insufficient solution to juggling work and family life.” - Dr. Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, Succeeding Outside the Academy 💬📚
“[The graduate program] hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual development.” - Dr. Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, Succeeding Outside the Academy 💬📚
“Lives matter more than careers. Focus on building the life you want rather than pursuing the career that people think you should have.” - Dr. Kelly J. Baker in Succeeding Outside the Academy 💬📚
📚💬 “I’m a 21st-century American woman; I don’t have enough faith to covet anything but freedom… My career has been a series of reactions to terrible economic & political circumstances caused by the corruption of elites.” Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior), #HidingInPlainSight
💬📚 “The Spy Girls are what happens when you record an episode of Charlie’s Angels over a VHS copy of Clueless while reading a Delia’s catalog and chugging Mountain Dew till your eyes cross.” - Gabrielle Moss, writing about Elizabeth Cage’s Spy Girls series in Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction
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