Marina Warner
Marina Warner
Dame Marina Sarah Warner, DBE, FRSL, FBAis a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has written for many publications, including The London Review of Books, the New Statesman, Sunday Times, The Telegraph and Vogue. She has been a visiting professor, given lectures and taught on the faculties of many universities...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth9 November 1946
essence males female
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.
spring opposites desire
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.
romance erotic greek
Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
scandal today revolution
The French Revolution printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which of course we are still reaping the huge consequences of today. It struck me that this was beginning to happen...there had been scandals where shares had been printed.
flow kind figures
Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
mirrors looking-in-the-mirror
I avoid looking in the mirror.
school catholic fervent
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
book night skills
Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than the fairy tale landscape of the West. Though we have interiors and palaces, we don't have bustling cities, and there isn't the emphasis on the artisan making things. The ambiance from which they were written was an entirely different one. The Arabian Nights comes out of a huge world of markets and trade. Cairo, Basra, Damascus: trades and skills.
mirrors trying aliens
I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
people cosmos culture
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
photographer young bookworms
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
taken writing thinking
I do not think commodities are taken for granted. One of the convergences in time I noticed, and to me seemed very important, was the emergence of paper money. There had been permissionary notes, exchanging money by writing it, but there was no duplicated form of guaranteeing an exchange.
gentleman special world
The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.
heart journey humanity
A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out.