Kathrin Radtke
@kathrinradtke
Kathrin Radtke
@kathrinradtke
If the most significant feminine archetypes relate to motherhood, especially in the context of the natural world - Mother Earth being the most obvious of them all - then what do they have to do with me? If my womb-space is “broken” - those dysfunctional, painful periods as well as my failure to put that womb-space to the use for which it was
... See moreAnd by the time I left him, I had learned enough about myself to understand that I would probably have subsumed myself entirely in motherhood, lost myself completely, if ever I’d had a child. I’d spent too much time worrying about my mother during my own childhood, always feeling that I was the one who had to take care of her. I was far too good at
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How to figure out what your desires are: Make a list of complaints. Often there is a desire hidden underneath. Make a list of every desire you can think of. Everything that comes up, especially if it is unrealistic.
The critic who doesn’t like your work is correct. He doesn’t like your work. This cannot be argued with. The critic who says that no one else will like your work is wrong. After all, you like your work. Someone else might like it too.
What happens to a drawing when we dislike it?
I will demonstrate. I do not like this drawing.
Ah! Yet it survives your dislike! Astonishing!
Lynda Barry, Syllabus
“Sometimes, madness seems like the only possible response to the insanity of the civilised world; sometimes, holding ourselves together is not an option, and the only way forward is to allow ourselves to fall apart.”
- Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted