Barbara Kruger Quotes

Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

The Grimm brothers always said that their informants were women, which is possibly not true, women of the people. There is the constant evocation of women's voices, in the collecting and arrangement of these stories, and yet the message of so many of them is incredibly misogynist. I was very puzzled by that, and that book explores that contradiction.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.

The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.

I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.

Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?" Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No." "I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat. "He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath.

God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.

Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon - that God will judge men justly, and they will not be able to raise their voices because of the base upon which He judges them.

I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

People say, well, do you ever hear any other voices other than, like, a few people? Of course I do.

You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what’s going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.

There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain things.