In movies about women, all important historical and natural events are translated into the terms of a woman's daily life. World Wa...r I is not about the Allies versus the Kaiser. It's about how unmarried women become pregnant when they have sex. The Depression is not about an economic collapse. It's about runs in stockings, no money for carfare, and being forced out into the streets. Natural disasters like earthquakes and cholera epidemics are defined by miscarriages and dying children. Everything is couched in terms of what are presumed to be the major events of a woman's life: men, marriage, motherhood, and all the usual "feminine" things. At the same time that big events are made small, personal, small events are made huge.... Thus, the woman's film is a genre that generously empowers a sex that society has relegated to secondary status.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody re...joices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their d...escent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human empl...oyment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective family ... tells us that those wh...o need help are ultimately inadequate. And it tells us that for a family to need help--or at least to admit it publicly--is to confess failure. Similarly, to give help, however generously, is to acknowledge the inadequacy of the recipients and indirectly to condemn them, to stigmatize them, and even to weaken what impulse they have toward self-sufficiency.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We want our children to become warm, decent human beings who reach out generously to those in need. We hope they find values and i...deals to give their lives purpose so they contribute to the world and make it a better place because they have lived in it. Intelligence, success, and high achievement are worthy goals, but they mean nothing if our children are not basically kind and loving people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must be generously willing to leave for a time the narrow boundaries in which our individual lives are passed ... In this fresh..., breezy atmosphere ... we will be surprised to find that many of our familiar old conventional truths look very queer indeed in some of the sudden side lights thrown upon them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Olympe was the first to enter the circle, generously lifting her dress on each side, as if to signify that she opened her belly, h...er chest to the group. Round, full, she brought to mind a curly-leafed breadfruit, and as soon as she began to dance, she was the breadfruit that a pole has dropped from the tree and that starts to roll down the hill, past paths and roads, descending and ascending from a powerful impulse, to the point of making us forget that the ground beneath her feet was flat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But we still remember ... above all, the cool, free aspect of the wild apple trees, generously proffering their fruit to us, thoug...h still green and crude,--the hard, round, glossy fruit, which, if not ripe, still was not poison, but New English too, brought hither, its ancestors, by ours once. These gentler trees imparted a half-civilized and twilight aspect to the otherwise barbarian land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »