peoples-lives-pay-tribute-society-class-gender-intersect-within-context

I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means in our society to be silenced. To try to understand how class and gender intersect with that. To try to understand how being named and classified within the context of psychiatry can intersect with all that, as well.

Kate Zambreno
0/5 (0)

Kate Zambreno's Popular Quotes

When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia.

- Kate Zambreno

I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them …

- Kate Zambreno

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

- Kate Zambreno

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.

- Kate Zambreno

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is…

- Kate Zambreno

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

- Kate Zambreno

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

- Kate Zambreno

For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecd…

- Kate Zambreno

I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main char…

- Kate Zambreno
0 Comments

Login to join the discussion