We live through sound and light—through our technologies. Lidia Yuknavitch More Quotes by Lidia Yuknavitch More Quotes From Lidia Yuknavitch I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature. Lidia Yuknavitch desirewritingcharacter Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. Lidia Yuknavitch life-experienceassfiction Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important in society or worth Pulitzer prizes as characters in literature. Lidia Yuknavitch nutscharacterchildren I just want my stories to be mine. Lidia Yuknavitch minesstorieswant This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go a little berserk. It's threatening. Deeply. Because if I have to admit how profoundly I need kindness? I have to admit that I hid the me who deserves it down in a sadness well. Lidia Yuknavitch sadnesskindnessthinking People - I mean couples - don't like to talk much about fighting. It's not attractive. No one likes to admit it or describe it or lay claim to it. We want our coupledoms to look... sanitized and pretty and worthy of admiration. And anger blasts are ugly. But, I think that is a crock. There is a kind of fighting that isn't ugly. There is a way for anger to come our as an energy you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage. Lidia Yuknavitch couplefightingmean I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body. Lidia Yuknavitch childhoodleavingbody
