Anne Phillips
Anne Phillips
Anne Phillips, is Professor of Political and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics, where she is based at the Gender Institute and Government Department...
loyalty firsts morality
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.
therapy
Talk between women friends is always therapy...
wind silence vibrations
If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.
fall old-year wind
When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.
love-is outlaw duty
Love is the outlaw's duty.
sight silence listening
As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.
writing wish more-time
I wish I had more time to write.
writing weight lines
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
towns hometown grows
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
I don't write a novel every two years.
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
theory
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.
war moving air
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.