Anna Montgomery:
CLASS OF 1988
Oak Hill Middle SchoolClass of 1988
Morganton, NC
Anna's Story
Anna is from Chicago, Illinois. Anna's schools include Oak Hill Middle School. Anna later attended Colorado College (Biology) .
Music Anna likes includes Ryan Po, Pulp, Bach. Books Anna likes include Virginia Woolf, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath. Movies Anna likes include After Life, HAPPY - A Documentary, The Young Victoria. TV shows Anna likes include Red Dwarf, Slings and Arrows, The Daily Show.
One of Anna's favorite quotes is:""Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it... Language as a whole gives everyone the same power of becoming an absolute subject through its exercise. But gender, an element of language, works upon this ontological fact to annul it as far as women are concerned and corresponds to a constant attempt to strip them of the most precious thing for a human being - subjectivity. Gender is an ontological impossibility because it tries to accomplish the division of Being. But Being is not divided. God or Man as being are One and whole. So what is this divided Being introduced into language through gender? It is an impossible Being, it is a Being that does not exist, an ontological joke, a conceptual maneuver to wrest from women what belongs to them by right: conceiving of oneself as a total subject through the exercise of language. The result of the imposition of gender, acting as a denial at the very moment when one speaks, is to deprive women of the authority of speech, and to force them to make their entrance in a crablike way, particularizing themselves and apologizing profusely. The result is to deny them any claim to the abstract, philosophical, political discourses that give shape to the social body. Gender then must be destroyed. Th...Expand for more
e possibility of its destruction is given through the very exercise of language. For each time I say 'I' I reorganize the world from my point of view and through abstraction I lay claim to universality. This fact holds true for every locutor. " Monique Wittig / âArt does not exist for politics or for instruction â it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.â â A.S. Byatt / âYou must do the things you think you cannot do.â â Eleanor Roosevelt / âWhen the soul wishes to experience something she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image.â â Meister Eckhart / âThe only thing which lies within our power is to know how not to distort the voice of life that sounds within us.â â Boris Pasternak / âHere is the writer who with all his heart and soul, with his art, in anguish and travail offers nourishment â there is the reader whoâll have none of it, and if he wants, itâs only in passing, offhandedly, until the phone rings. Lifeâs trivia are your undoing. You are like a man who has challenged a dragon to a fight but will be yapped into a corner by a little dog.â â Witold Gombrowicz (from Ferdydurke) / âOur culture does everything it can to discourage us from becoming aware of our inner life. Itâs considered a waste of time, a distraction from the really important things. There are no rewards for contemplation. You donât get degrees, promotions, bonuses. In fact, we are taught to be as externally oriented as possible; every sense we have is flooded with beckonings from the outside world.â â Dawna Markova / âMan is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.â â Stendhal".
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