Character Quotes by Lidia Yuknavitch

8 Character quotes by Lidia Yuknavitch

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The writer’s unapologetic voice distills into eight short statements about the messy, beautiful process of becoming. Yuknavitch’s snippets feel like a quick diary entry on the grit behind personal evolution.

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Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present…

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We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of…

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When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically…

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I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities…

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“To the daughters of Eve, that they may teach men that love is not lechery, nor the simony of voluptuousness, but a…

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One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking…

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One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to…

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Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial…

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“This man was gorgeous. I'm mentioning this because women live their lives secretly waiting for their lives to become movies. We act like men…

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“We'd cry great waves of love and rage for this young woman, whose resistance made our own lives look empty as nadless ball sacks…

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“We consumer and become exactly what we create. In all times.”

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The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric…

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I just want my stories to be mine.

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“Everyone’s last wish turned out to be love: may I be consumed by the simplicity and purity of a love story, any love, base…

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Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing…

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“Words from my whole body, my entire life, or the lives of women and girls whose stories got stuck in their throats came gushing…

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“We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt.”

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Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important…

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