Biased Quote by Judith L. Alpert

“…madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…”

— Anne Sexton

“However, many of our ancestors were both the colonizers and the colonized. We embody immensely conflicting cultures.”

— Dolores Delgado Bernal

“The trouble with hysteria is that it's contagious.”

— Romain Gary

“Hysteria is impossible without an audience.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, /…

— Adrienne Rich

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our…

— Herbert Butterfield

“The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.”

— Libba Bray

“Hysteria, hostility and fear are optional.”

— Manish Pawar

“It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.”

— Jessie Douglas Kerruish

“Colonized painting, for instance, is balanced between poles. From excessive submission to Europe resulting in depersonalization, it passes to such a violent return to…

— Albert Memmi

“History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.”

— Simone Weil

“It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his…

— The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters