FAVORITE QUOTES FROM "ANGRY WOMEN"

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FAVORITE QUOTES FROM THE BOOK “ANGRY WOMEN” BY ANDREA JUNO
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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

From Oscar Wilde’s THE SOUL OF A MAN UNDER SOCIALISM (1891)
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EXCERPT FROM “AMERICAN DREAMS” BY SAPPHIRE

One time when I was a little girl living on an army base
I was in a gymnasium & the general walked in.
& the general is like god or the president, if you believe.
The young woman supervising said,
“Stand up everybody! The general’s here!”
Everybody stood up except me.
The woman looked at me & hissed,
“Stand up for the general!”
I said, “My father’s in the army, not me.”
& remain seated.
& throughout 38 years of
bucking & winging
grinning & crawling
brown nosing & begging
there has been a quiet
10 year old in me
who has remain seated.
She perhaps is the real American dream.

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“One great ancestor of this whole censorship delirium was the example of William Burroughs’ NAKED LUNCH, which of course was initially censored. Before that, there was James Joyce’s ULYSSES. Here, the judge had let all his friends who were upright gentlemen read ULYSSES in the privacy of their own bedrooms, and these were men (he wrote) who were not prone to sexual arousal in arbitrary and unacceptable ways. It was stunning when the judge proved in his argument that James Joyce had produced a novel which had nothing to do with sexual arousal, but which produced nausea—it only made you want to throw up! Then the judge declared that ULYSSES was hereby admitted into the United States of America. This was such a sublimely grotesque moment.”—Avita Ronell


“Reality is so complicated, yet our culture wants to simplify it into one total (or totalitarian) truth. A lot of political movements still hang onto a single shred of truth as if it were “the” truth—this has to be abandoned. That’s why one rarely uses the word “revolution” anymore—or rather, “the revolution”. I think we’re in a very mournful and depressed era right now, because all revolutions have disappointed us.”—Avita Ronell


“I think we’re in a historical depression right now because everything has failed so entirely. This could be a great moment, because we have to re-think everything: “Okay, we’re at absolutely a dead end—an absolutely devastating impasse.” Which means that one has to think one’s way out of it.”—Avita Ronell


“There is a permanent conspiracy against anything that is original—that’s what you have to get inside your head.”—Gustave Flaubert
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“I know nothing that is beyond the reach of the human mind—except truth.” –Comte de Lautreamont
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“For the psychoanalyst, ignorance and fear are not two separate things. There’s an ignorance that exists through fear. We hide certain things from ourselves to defend ourselves against them. With sex, this is precisely the case”—from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film, LOVE MEETINGS


“Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which humanity is kept imprisoned”—Enlightened Anarchism


“Revolution must happen inside us before it is achieved in reality...A cop sleeps inside each of us—it is necessary to kill him!”—graffiti, May 1968


“I always gather my strength from knowing that it was the rest of the world versus me. I took comfort in that fact—as opposed to other people who feel so alone and get buried by it. I know that every problem I speak about (no matter how personalized it is or how unique the details are) is universal.

No matter how well I know anyone else or how well anyone understood me, or how well I got along with anyone, still: you stand by yourself at the end of the day and at the end of your life. So why not get used to that fact? Why not grow to become your best friend, your biggest confidante, and your staunchest supporter?”—LYDIA LUNCH
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