History Quote by 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 been 'killed'…

— 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 like men…

— 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 ball sacks…

— 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 went meteoric…

— 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 love, base…

— 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 be hearing…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“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

“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 and important…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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