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...
red shoes striking
The red shoes were visually striking on the screen. They had Technicolor and, by golly, they were going to use it.
carefully paragraph
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
cabbage christmas doll hoped patch tickle time tree
It was the Cabbage Patch doll and Tickle Me Elmo of its time -- the thing you really hoped would be under the tree when you got up Christmas morning.
believed stupid
I believed him, stupid me. What kind of bookkeeping is that?
children criticism literary middle question says teacher wonderful
So you have this wonderful literary criticism in the middle of kindergarten class. The teacher says it really doesn't matter, but the first thing she did was show the children the bathroom. This is a question real children would have.
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.
guild member subversive
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
suggested
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
work
I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.
builds image inside maybe periods tension time via work
I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.
larger provides writers
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
towns hometown grows
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
writing weight lines
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
writing wish more-time
I wish I had more time to write.