
Regarding her second book, How to be a Domestic Goddess.
A woman of extremes (2001)
Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 280).
Regarding her second book, How to be a Domestic Goddess.
A woman of extremes (2001)
“Being a father
Is quite a bother,
But I like it, rather.”
"Soliloquy in Circles"
Versus (1949)
“Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.”
New York Times, 7 October 1962.
“I would rather have a clean government than one where 'First Amendment rights' are being respected”
On the Don Imus show (28 April 2006)
2000s, 2006
Context: I work in Washington and I know that money corrupts. And I and a lot of other people were trying to stop that corruption. Obviously, from what we've been seeing lately, we didn't complete the job. But I would rather have a clean government than one where 'First Amendment rights' are being respected that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government.
“The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.”
Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 123
Context: The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger and later Fromm have argued, for its source lies in those realms where the self is rooted in natural forces which go beyond the self and are felt as the grasp of fate upon us. The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.
“A dignified man prefers to be feared and respected rather than being loved”
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Referring to the jazz musicians who performed along with his readings
Rothenberg and Antin interview (1958)