8/9/2008
The ever so insightful Susan
"Silent not merely for want of encouragement. Silent because of the way women are defined and therefore, commonly, define themselves. For the obligation to be physically attractive and patient and nurturing and docile and sensetive and deferential to fathers (to brother, to husbands) contradicts and must collide with the egocentricity and the aggresiveness and the indefference to self that a large creative gift requires in order to flourish."
"A play, then, about the grief and anger of women; and finally, a play about imagination.
The reality of the mental prison. The triumphs of the imagination.
But the victories of the imagination are not enough."
--- Susan Sontag, A Note on the Play. <Alice in Bed>.
