Argument Asserts

Famous quotes containing the words argument and/or asserts:

“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal, that we can understand our past through a male lens—if we are unaware that women even have a history—we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)