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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
The dance of renewal, the dance that made the world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
Men are afraid of virgins, but they have a cure for their own fear and the virgin's virginity: fucking.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids, and above all, don’t die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
To me the “female principle” is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)