Jacqueline Rose quotes

“I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.”
-- Jacqueline Rose

Source : "Jacqueline Rose: a life in writing" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.

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“In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of the most anguished political crises of our times.”
-- Jacqueline Rose

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“I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.”

“I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.”

“The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.”

“It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.”

“The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.”

Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391

“We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.”

“I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.”

“My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.”

“And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.”

“It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion,”