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" A story is told as much by silence as by speech. "
Silence
Much
Story
" Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere. "
Secret
Atmosphere
Before
" Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike. "
Together
Life
Men
" Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. "
Citizenship
Well
Sick
" Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.' "
Gender
Simple
Way
" I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves. "
Away
I Am
History
" I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker. "
Filmmaker
Wanted
Up
" In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. "
Feel
Book
Sense
" I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. "
Children
Mind
Out
" Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. "
Culture
Feel
Image
" Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it. "
Masculinity
Problem
Shape
" Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. "
Death
Body
You
" Society, like nature, is one body, really. "
Society
Really
Nature
" What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim. "
Generation
In The Past
Claim
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