Anne Phillips
Anne Phillips
Anne Phillips, is Professor of Political and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics, where she is based at the Gender Institute and Government Department...
children criticism literary middle question says teacher wonderful
So you have this wonderful literary criticism in the middle of kindergarten class. The teacher says it really doesn't matter, but the first thing she did was show the children the bathroom. This is a question real children would have.
cabbage christmas doll hoped patch tickle time tree
It was the Cabbage Patch doll and Tickle Me Elmo of its time -- the thing you really hoped would be under the tree when you got up Christmas morning.
red shoes striking
The red shoes were visually striking on the screen. They had Technicolor and, by golly, they were going to use it.
believed stupid
I believed him, stupid me. What kind of bookkeeping is that?
book books children valued war women
Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
trying
Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.
work
I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.
carefully paragraph
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.
larger provides writers
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
theory
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.
suggested
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.