Lidia Yuknavitch

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I just want my stories to be mine.

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“That image of Joan of Arc burning up in a fire burned inside me like a new religion. Her face skyward. Her…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

One of the reasons I love language is that concerning semiotics, language is an arbitrary sign system, which means the signs within…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“The safest memories are locked in the brains of people who can’t remember. Their memories remain the closest replica of actual events.…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“If you are one of those people who has the ability to make it down to the bottom of the ocean, the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“There's a girl calm people don't know about. It's a girl teen standstill. A motionless peace. It doesn't come from anywhere but…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Unlike those in power here on CIEL, reproduction wasn't what we mourned. We mourned the carnal. Societies may be organized around procreation,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“People are forever thinking that the unthinkable can't happen.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch