Body Quote by Monique Wittig Download Open image “Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.” — Monique Wittig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Body Casts Language Reality Reality Social Sheaves Reality Social Stamping Violently Violently Violently Shaping
“Written language may have been conceived as a modest way of describing reality, bit it gradually became a powerful way to reshape reality.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people,” — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's being communicated… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“The women say that they could not eat hare veal or fowl, they say that they could not eat animals, but man, yes, they… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/ I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.” — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image