Quotes About Expression

Whereas cells in men have just a single, maternal X chromosome, cells in women have both a maternal and a paternal X chromosome. Female cells inactivate one of the two X chromosomes, resulting in a mosaic of cells with distinct combinations of gene variants. This variety could result in an immunity advantage compared to the more fixed expression in males.51

Seeing people only as members of groups is, he says, "inherently reductionist and dehumanizing, a collectivist and ideological abstraction of all that is original and creative in the human being, of all that has not been imposed by inheritance, geography, or social pressure." Real, personal identity, he argues, "springs from the capacity of human beings to resist these influences and counter them with free acts of their own invention." 5

Sylvia Plath's writing, to her, broke open the "vaults of the dead"

All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more

As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing will become a means for recording chatter.

When we speak with emoji, we're speaking a language that machines can understand.

Our indulgence in the pleasures of informality and immediacy has led to a narrowing of expressiveness and a loss of eloquence.

Our indulgence in the pleasures of informality and immediacy has led to a narrowing of expressiveness and a loss of eloquence.19

The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. —D. H. Lawrence,

Drawings are not just end products: they are part of the thought process

because Beethoven did not know where it was going to end up. That, of course, is the point of sketching.

These things have a huge impact on how music is experienced by listeners; they can make one performance profoundly moving, another dull or ridiculous or unintelligible, even though the notes are the same.

Why do foreigners always ask about clothing?" one woman doctor asked. "Why does it matter so much what we wear? Of all the issues in the world, is that really so important?" Another said: "You think we're victims, because we cover our hair and wear modest clothing. But we think that it's Western women who are repressed, because they have to show their bodies—even go through surgery to change their bodies—to please men.

Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.

The Net's interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.

A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative enquiry, for free creation.'1 Noam Chomsky

Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley

But I'll let you in on a secret, Nonius: it is important for women to break hearts. You men can destroy in so many ways. But for us—for those lucky enough to make men fall in love with us—it is how we make our mark on the world. It is proof we were ever here, the pain we leave behind. And the more worthy the lovers we break, the better." "Shall I take that as a warning?" "Only if you intend to fall in love.

There are always differences, tensions, paradoxes between what a text says (or what an author wants to say, or thinks s/he is saying) and what a text does.

A writer can never have complete command or mastery over what s/he writes. Neither can a reader.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned.

There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape.... The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.