"Women are defined by their biography, and men……" — Kate Braverman
"Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography."
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17 Quotes by Kate Braverman
Kate Braverman has 17 quotes on this site.
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To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
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All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.
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The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution…
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All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do…
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Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke.…
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As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
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I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.
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In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.
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Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.
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I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the…
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I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line…
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Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can…
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More Biographies Quotes
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one of 333 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers…
— David Bowie
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
— Anita Brookner
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses,…
— A. S. Byatt
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it…
— Jane Campion
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
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Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
— Deepak Chopra
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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most…
— Mark Twain
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I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better…
— Charles Babbage
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