Karen Bix:
CLASS OF 1980
Goodman School of DramaClass of 1980
Chicago, IL
Karen's Story
Karen is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Karen is married with Brian Bix. Karen later attended University of Wisconsin-Madison (English), Goodman School Of Drama (Acting). Karen works(ed) at Bix Educational Services, University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota.
Music Karen likes includes Livni, Janelle Monáe, Lombardo. Books Karen likes include Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media, The Finkler Question, Discourses of Suffering. Movies Karen likes include Fathom Events, A kippah in the Caribbean, Sony Classics. TV shows Karen likes include Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Comedy Central, Show of Force: Social Good.
One of Karen's favorite quotes is:""brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio"
"In the personal realm... the whole machinery of confession, apology, and forgiveness is retentive, unloving, and often quite vindictive. The offer of forgiveness, though seemingly attractive and gracious, actually displays what Bernard Williams, in a different context, called 'one thought too many,' that is a list-keeping, inquisitorial mentality that a generous and loving person should eschew. Bishop Butler warned of the narcissism of resentment, and I shall argue that the 'journey' of forgiveness all too often gives aid and comfort to that narcissism…. The middle realm, similarly, contains a significant role for apology as a signal, going forward, that the offending worker or boss can be trusted; it is a useful device that smooths the way for respectful interactions after a breach. But the desire to extract apologies from others as a kind of payback or 'down-ranking' haunts this realm as well, and we should beware of it" -- Martha Nussbaum
Policy and patriarchy -“‘Compassion that lies at the root of mercy is unlikely to be forthcoming in anyone who finds it problematic to acknowledge human neediness and dependence’ (Nussbaum 1993). Those who find such acknowledgements problematic will likely find others making too much of their bad luck having the wrong values, not being tough enough, being less invulnerable to fortune than one could or should be…Nussbaum’s view suggests the general thesis that virtues that invoke compassion… are unlikely to develop in those who deny the importance of contingencies for who they really are and what really counts in their lives… This is how many men and some women raised on patriarchal ideals of masculinity appear to regard their own tendencies to sympathize with those who su...Expand for more
ffer from policies that can have hard consequences for some…” - Claudia Card
“It's the hierarchy we need to unlearn." -- Gloria Steinem
"Se hace camino al andar"- Antonio Machado
"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope... Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint." - Reinhold Niebuhr
"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
Anton Chekhov
"The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world." -- Tennyson, Ulysses
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King
"The root of any religious faith is a sense of embarrassment, of inadequacy. I would cultivate a sense of embarrassment. It would be a great calamity for humanity if the sense of embarrassment disappeared, if everybody was an all-rightnik, with an answer to every problem. We have no answer to ultimate problems. We really don’t know. In this not knowing, in this sense of embarrassment, lies the keys to opening the wells of creativity. Those who have no embarrassment remain sterile. We must develop this contrition or sense of embarrassment." -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
"[Compassion] also requires, as we can now see, the belief that there are serious bad things that may happen to people through no fault of their own, or beyond their fault. In having compassion for one another, the compassionate person accepts, then, a certain picture of the world, a picture according to which the valuable things are not always safely under a person's own control, but can in some ways be damaged by fortune....this picture of the world is profoundly controversial" - Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought, pp. 314-15.
Chinese Proverb: "Wherever you go, leave a gift."
"More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment." -- Edward Sapir
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Julian Barnes, "Flaubert's Parrot"".
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