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“We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I know this about celebrity (fame). Glory fades away. It's fickle. It comes and goes.” — Adolph Caesar Copy Share Image
“there are some who seek celebrity to change the world, and others who seek it to ensnare the world.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power. — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
“If it all ended on our shores that would be serious enough, indeed, as our idol worship of famous, rich actors and sports figures… — John Price Copy Share Image
“Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.” — Daniel Rodriguez 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
