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...
larger provides writers
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.
suggested
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
I don't write a novel every two years.
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
war moving air
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
writing secret life-is
The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.
loyalty firsts morality
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.
therapy
Talk between women friends is always therapy...
wind silence vibrations
If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.
men trying body
Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.
country memories distance
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.
fall old-year wind
When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.
love-is outlaw duty
Love is the outlaw's duty.