Quotes About Expression

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

und kalt und stürmisch, im Gesicht.

like Ariel released from his tree prison, a beautiful human being leaps out of many a human prison at the touch of sympathy .

It was not you, it was your eyes – I spoke to them.

I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

Its time we woke up," pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. "Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who's to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what's more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind.

Most men's eyes, when you look at them critically, are not like that. They may look at you very expressively, but when you look at them, just as features, they are not very nice.

The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

Às vezes eu acho que se ao menos eu estivesse bem o suficiente para escrever um pouco, aliviaria a pressão das ideias e eu poderia descansar. - O papel de parede amarelo

There are many who think in one syllable, who say, 'women don't dress to please men--they dress to please themselves--and to outshine other women.

I think sometimes that if only I were well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me. But I find that I get pretty tired when I try.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.

she would fill the silence with her own sweet voice.

Taylor's tendency to vent

You can't translate something that was never in a language in the first place.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.