"The female form provides the solution in which……" — Marina Warner
"The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover."
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Marina Warner
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17 Quotes by Marina Warner
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly…
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Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that…
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Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers…
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Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and…
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Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
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Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
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I avoid looking in the mirror.
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I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
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I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also…
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When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a…
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how…
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I acted in millions of TV shows.
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to…
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
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I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake…
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I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
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I've acted professionally since I was 16.
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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it…
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
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