Barbara Degenevieve quotes
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.”
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“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
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2006.
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“Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.”
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Source : Joe Vitale (2010). “The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons
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“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.