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Katy Waldman Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“Lavin’s thread distilled the ridiculousness that ensues when bookish men perform interest in women’s inner lives out of a misbegotten sense of nobility.”
— Katy Waldman, How Women See How Male Authors See Them
Tagged: Male Authors, The Male Gaze, The Female Form, Objectification of Women, Female Personhood, Literary Depictions of Women, The Interiority of Women, Inner Life
“'Girlhood' often feels like a baffled attempt to comprehend something impossible: How did a person given to climaxing joyously in the bathtub end up trapped in a 'twilit mode of passivity'?”
— Katy Waldman, Why We Mourn Girlhood
Tagged: Girlhood, Growing Up, Growth, Feminity , Being a woman
“The canon is lousy with authors who yearn to be admired for their sensitivity to the full range of female personhood, be that personhood luscious, pert, or swelling coyly against a sheer camisole. These are writerly men confident that they’ve nailed women’s psyches, all because of how single-mindedly they want to nail women.”
— Katy Waldman, How Women See How Male Authors See Them
Tagged: Male Authors, The Male Gaze, The Female Form, Objectification of Women, Female Personhood, Literary Depictions of Women
“Once upon a time, artists had jobs. And not 'advising the Library of Congress on its newest Verdi acquisition' jobs, but job jobs, the kind you hear about in stump speeches. Think of T.S. Eliot, conjuring 'The Waste Land' (1922) by night and overseeing foreign accounts at Lloyds Bank during the day, or Wallace Stevens, scribbling lines of poetry on his two-mile walk to work, then handing them over to his secretary to transcribe at the insurance agency where he supervised real estate claims. The avant-garde composer Philip Glass shocked at least one music lover when he materialized, smock-clad and brandishing plumber’s tools, in a home with a malfunctioning appliance. 'While working,' Glass recounted to The Guardian in 2001, “I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing here?’ It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him that I would soon be finished. ‘But you are an artist,’ he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.”
— Katy Waldman, Does Having a Day Job Mean Making Better Art?
Tagged: How To Think, Art Work, Art and Life, Artists, Philosophy
“What, then, is the real relationship between art and trade? Agonistic? Complementary? The question, suggesting something like a creative sanctum shimmering a few meters above the room in which you punch a clock or schedule a meeting, supposes that aesthetic experience is categorically different from everyday experience, and that muse-fueled invention floats apart from earthier forms of productivity.”
— Katy Waldman, Does Having a Day Job Mean Making Better Art?
Tagged: How To Think, Philosophy, Psychology, Art Work, Art and Work
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