Sara Campbell
@tinyrevver
i never give up
Sara Campbell
@tinyrevver
i never give up
Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. —Adrienne Rich
And so we have the critical attributes of the archetypal heroic feminine:
1. The hero challenges the external threat and the heroine challenges the hero. The inverse of that is a figure we're all familiar with, namely Lady MacBeth who rather than challenging the hero to virtue, goads him into evil. A positive example would be Elizabeth Bennet from
... See moreThe Chinese proverb says it this way: “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
