Negation/definition

Famous quotes containing the words negation and/or definition:

    Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
    Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    ... 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)