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...
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.
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.
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.
carefully paragraph
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
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.
trying
Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.
book books children valued war women
Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
adult bind both business divided divorced kids though
That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.
red shoes striking
The red shoes were visually striking on the screen. They had Technicolor and, by golly, they were going to use it.
larger provides writers
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.