User:A23423413
30something lightskinned male here, I've been putting a lot of energy into the shesaid effort, here's the process I've been using:
1. look for lists of people that should have pages on here, using phrases like "writers from _(country/subculture)_ female" or "poets from _(country/subculture)_ women" on a searchbar
2. search for interviews with them
3. check if there are good quotes from them on goodreads, azquotes, libquotes, and use Internet Archive to verify them and add page numbers
4. and I've found the template for starting new pages on here very helpful
Thank you to everyone who has taken/takes time to give me good faith feedback. I've started to remove a small number of quotes that I added back when I first began editing here, or replacing them with ones that seem like a better fit. I mostly don't touch quotes other people have added to pages, in the rare case I have I move them to the talk page with a note.
some of the quotations I think about a lot when I'm on here
- Elizabeth Martinez- "Ask almost anyone outside of academia to name famous US women of Mexican origin and you will probably hear ‘Dolores Huerta.’ If the person knows our contemporary writers, maybe ‘Sandra Cisneros’ and ‘Ana Castillo.’ If you ask for a name from earlier times, you might get ‘Sor Juana’-the rebel nun of the 1600s. When you try to dig deeper, your companion may whimper, ‘I give up! Well…there’s the Virgin of Guadalupe, she’s on a lot of T-shirts. It was inevitable, then, that the need for a book like this would be recognized." And "the problem of locating photos often confirms the indifference to women’s presence in history, as reflected in the media, books, historical records, museums, university libraries." 2008
- Dolores Huerta- "That's the history of the world, his is story is told, hers isn't" (so far)
- Joanna Russ- "Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is." and "Much anti-feminist criticism of feminist writing can best be answered with, 'Yeah? And where were you at the time, twinkletoes? Writing your ten-thousandth essay on King Lear?'" -How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983)
- Maya Angelou- “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
- We have stories
as old as the great seas
breaking through the chest,
flying out the mouth,
noisy tongues that once were silenced,
all the oceans we contain
coming to light- Linda Hogan (writer) Seeing through the Sun (1985)
and some i've been thinking about in general:
- Ernestine Rose- "justice...must begin at home." 1863
- Lee Maracle- "peace is always what is necessary. That whatever you do, let it contribute to peace." (2017)
- Nalo Hopkinson- "It’s the beautiful thing about being a fiction writer; you can write the world you want to see." 2014
- Grace Paley- "you can only teach learners. You can’t teach any subject to anybody who isn’t there to want to know." 1976
- Linda Hogan (writer) "a community is not just us-our nuclear family, or the Indian community, or a "University community," as they say here--but the community of all living creatures." 1986
- Maxine Hong Kingston- "In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment." 2003
- Robin Wall Kimmerer- "When a language dies, so much more than words are lost. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world." 2013
- Kathleen Alcalá- "We remake our world by re-imagining it, by sharing our idea of the world." (2021) and "This is the extraordinary power of the written word: that it can make dictators, surrounded by militia, tremble in their boots." (2001)
- Naomi Shihab Nye "what lovely, larger life becomes ours when we listen to one another" (1992) and "I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!" (2002)
- Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz- "Learning a language stretches a long way to help create trust, to strengthen our ability to communicate and to understand another people. It also signals willingness to give up centrality." 1992
- Marjorie Agosín- "how to become someone else-that's perhaps the greatest challenge for a translator because to become someone else is to become compassionate. To become someone else, you have to be in love with someone else. And in that sense I strongly believe that translations are acts of love" 1999
- Irena Klepfisz- "All these Jewish women - Julia, Nadia, Patti, Gina, Fradl Shtok, Kadia Molodowsky - are my ancestors. They are mayne bobes, mumes, shvester, my grandmothers, aunts, sisters. Mir darfn zikh bakenen. We need to become acquainted." 1990
- Marge Piercy- "When I was a child, I first noticed that neither history as I was taught it, nor the stories I was told, seemed to lead to me. I began to fix them. I have been at it ever since. We need a past that leads to us. Similarly, what we imagine we are working toward does a lot to define what we will consider doable action aimed at producing the future we want and preventing the future we fear." 2016
- Edwidge Danticat- The way the media cycle works here, the way the news works, and the way people’s attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis. That’s why I think it is important to reach people through other means, like the arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that’s not an instant crisis. It’s not disaster porn, it’s a mutual gaze: I’m giving you something and you’re giving me something." 2010
- Aurora Levins Morales- Trauma is not the opposite of joy; it's the husk around its seed. The more we face into the world, the more we let ourselves know how other people live, the more we learn about not only their pain and rage but also their love and resilience, their defiance and hope, and it's from that full spectrum of knowing that we fill in the details and colors of the world we want. There is a joy that rises from being with what's true, even when that truth includes the terrible. -Medicine Stories (2019)
- Shulamith Hareven- "It is probable that the time of governments' wishing to control literature is past. What we are faced with now is the frightening authority of great, terrifying masses of people who hardly ever read, who prefer television and the movies, and who carry the terrible weight of sheer huge numbers. What can we do? Essentially, what we have been doing so far: write of what we know, our places, our environment, our families." (1974) and "The horizontal society of equals rather than one of perpendicular hierarchical groups, a society that creates worldwide networks, is the society of peace." (1993)
- "One thing remains true: hatred only breeds hatred." -Love (1968) by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, translated from French
- "She taught me this above all else: things which don't shift and grow are dead things." -Ceremony (1977) by Leslie Marmon Silko
- The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. -A paixão segundo G.H. (1964) by Clarice Lispector, translated from Portuguese
- "The difference between mad people and sane people...is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over." - The Warrior Woman (1976) by Maxine Hong Kingston
- A cada paso adelantado en mi ruta hacia el frente/rasgaba mis espaldas el aleteo desesperado/de los troncos viejos.
- At each advancing step on my route forward/my back was ripped by the desperate flapping/wings of the old guard. Julia de Burgos
- Lofty words from the great dreamers of old/rustle in the treetops/and fall on my heart with every leaf and every star
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