The job of the terrorists was to penetrate into our subconscious. This had always been the aim of writers, but the terrorists took it a step further. They were the writers of our age. Don DeLillo said...
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consum...
The ocean stands for God, the sole substance, and individual beings are like waves - which are modes of the sea. Each wave has its own shape that it holds for a certain time, but the wave is not separ...
When we look back into our lives we see that our life is but a collection, a collage of these moments which take the shape of images, images which lower our spirits, images which inspire, images which...
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind.
My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.
How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?
By viewing images we cast onto outer reality as mirror reflections of inner reality, we come to know ourselves.
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens...
Images change everything, so think in images... This images one moment becom action!
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
As life goes on, images fade.
The images of things are not the things in themselves.
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us...During the past decade, women breached...