If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the challenges women face in relationships due to societal expectations and personal dynamics.
Marina Abramovic expresses the challenging dynamics that women experience in establishing and maintaining relationships. She points out the societal expectation for women to be fragile and dependent, noting that when a woman does not conform to this stereotype, she may initially attract fascination but ultimately faces pressures to change, which often leads to the end of the relationship. This underscores the tension between authenticity and societal roles that women navigate in romantic connections.
In practice
During a women's empowerment seminar.
All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.
I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.
He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.
I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.
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