Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the mainstream in short bursts and pulses and then gets diluted. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson shot up and… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson said, it can blow the top of your head off. Poetic language is sometimes misunderstood as… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“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… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“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… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric - but some of the comments and communications and gestures she gets in the wake of that success are stunningly and atrociously over-personal, as if suddenly people feel like they know her and her life intimately,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
“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… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
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… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Words from my whole body, my entire life, or the lives of women and girls whose stories got stuck in their throats came gushing… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
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… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life had I… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
