One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.
in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her), and (2) guilty (about what I got). Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.
When I feel overwhelmed by misfortune, the greatest joy that the Lord can give me is to go to the altar, to put my forehead against it (as on the day of my ordination to the priesthood), and to feel the presence of the only reality. Not only does calm return, but my body seems to be annihilated; the only true life begins, the life of that which is intangible.
I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.