Teresa de Lauretis quotes
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“Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.”
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“The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.”
-- Teresa de LauretisSource : Teresa De Lauretis (2008). “Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film”, p.3, Springer
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“But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.”
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“The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.”
-- Teresa de LauretisSource : Teresa De Lauretis (1984). “Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema”, p.119, Indiana University Press
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“To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.”
-- Teresa de Lauretis
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“Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.”
Source : Aleatha Romig (2011). “Consequences”, p.104, Romig Works LLC
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“Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.”
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“One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”
Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.85, Penguin
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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