Barbara Degenevieve quotes

As an academic I feel I should intellectualize and theoretically analyze when all I really want to do is let the work take me somewhere, manipulate me, and then rough me up a bit. When it comes right down to it, I only want to spend time with work that makes me think and teaches me something while making my body react.
-- Barbara Degenevieve

#Thinking #Body #Want

You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.
-- Barbara Degenevieve

#Editing #Cameras #Video

I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.
-- Barbara Degenevieve

#Moving #Order #Practice

I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.
-- Barbara Degenevieve

#Currents #I Can

In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.
-- Barbara Degenevieve

#Erotic #Style #Identity

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

You are not a body. You have a body. You are a soul.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.