Caputi Quotes & Sayings

What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage. — Jane Caputi

The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is. — Jane Caputi

We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear, but we do not know the strength of our own hearts, nor the power of God. He knows all. He knows every folding of the heart and also the extent of the sorrow that he inflicts. What we think will overwhelm us entirely only subdues and conquers our pride. Our renewed spirit rises from its subjugation with a celestial strength and consolation. — Francois Fenelon

It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful. — Michael Jordan

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness. — Hillary Clinton

Give people the chance to change. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth. — Jane Caputi

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust. — Rick Riordan

The prisoner followed his guide, who led him into a room almost under ground, whose bare and reeking walls seemed as though impregnated with tears — Alexandre Dumas

I know I shouldn't look, but I can't help it, I have to see if it's like before. Even with his mask on, I saw the soul beneath the stone. — Alexandra Bracken

We think we're doing it all. But the animals are doing the real work of holding it all together, and keeping us on our path. As are the plants. It's as if we think the stars and sun and moon and the earth itself aren't doing any work. It's as if we think that all of nature is unintelligent except for us. — Jane Caputi

Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world — Jane Caputi

The new post-Saddam Iraq had no secular heros. — Patrick Cockburn

People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. — Sam Levenson

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living. — Fay Weldon