- fetsiboomsticks: Cultural ghettos are places where we congregate with people just like us. Where we otherise others by affirming ourselves and by actively ennumerating what differences the differences of others.
- frustration is very stimulating. Learning a language, being frustrated that you can't express in fine detail keeps you trying.
- a reader wants to see the manifestation of the identity of the author in the story
- fetsiboomsticks: you are not a creator, an actor takes roles that he 'agrees' with, that he is prepared to endorse, that's what we think.
- multicultural writers are expected to write their culture, English writers are allowed to be more imaginative
- she was prosecuted for words she had written and she objects because it is fiction writers are entitled to their opinions, but it is not politics its fiction, separate things
- fiction is a connector, politics is a divider
- Muslims read books by Palistinians and vice versa, they connect. Politicians stop you from listening
- She likes not knowing what she will write about next or what characters will do in the next ten pages
- Perhaps we should not teach students to write what they know, instead write what we can feel outside of their cultural ghetto
Of Death and Conscience: Brief thoughts on gender role and the values of the dominant culture in medicine : "“Under the influence of the Church and the newly formed male-dominated medical establishment, the word “witch,” which originally meant “wise one,” became a term of scorn. It took a reign of terror lasting several hundred years to radically alter a way of life thousands of years old. Millions of women who carried the healing lineage were systematically killed (see The Church and the Second Sex by Mary Daly).”"
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