The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to s...ignificant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children--we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works tha...t are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would seem that the film maker is able to exert a greater degree of control over his medium than the writer since the image of ...a farmhouse is much more explicit than the word itself. That is, it is not necessary to translate a picture into an image--film is literal, concrete, and explicit. The film maker is able to show precisely the farmhouse he has in mind--he doesn't have to trust that the reader will "see" the same farmhouse. And yet, despite his superior technical ability to delineate the concrete, the film maker gives up some of his power of suggestion by insisting on explicitness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major...--perhaps the major--stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am looking over Self Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written... Work, without anything of Nature or Probability in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To make life more bearable and pleasant for everybody, choose the issues that are significant enough to fight over, and ignore or ...use distraction for those you can let slide that day. Picking your battles will eliminate a number of conflicts, and yet will still leave you feeling in control.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To try to control a nine-month-old's clinginess by forcing him away is a mistake, because it counteracts a normal part of the chil...d's development. To think that the child is clinging to you because he is spoiled is nonsense. Clinginess is not a discipline issue, at least not in the sense of correcting a wrongdoing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize r...esources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never met one. That ...is, I never met one who thought that she should be kept in ignorance of contraceptive methods. Many I have met who valued the knowledge they possessed, but thought there were certain other classes who would be better kept in ignorance. The old would protect the young. The rich would keep the poor in ignorance. The good would keep their knowledge from the bad, the strong from the weak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the black girls didn't get these pills because their black ministers were up on the pulpit saying that birth control pills wer...e black genocide. What I'm saying is that black men have exploited black women.... They didn't want them to have any choice about their reproductive health. And if you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »