

“Re-vision â€� the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction â€� is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.”
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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