Orientalism Edward Quotes

#1. I'm not a militant lesbian. I carry myself in a way that makes it easier for women to relate to. I can be your best girlfriend.

Jackie Warner

#2. Orientalism is after all a system for citing works and authors . Orientalism

Edward W. Said

#3. I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.

Edward W. Said

#4. We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Marilyn Hacker

#5. Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.

Edward Abbey

#6. Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

Edward Said

#7. We allow justly that the Holocaust has permanently altered the consciousness of our time: Why do we not accord the same epistemological mutation in what imperialism has done, and what Orientalism continues to do?

Edward W. Said

#8. Telling others about oneself is ... no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

Jerome Bruner

#9. In a sense the limitations of Orientalism are, as I said earlier, the limitations that follow upon disregarding, essentializing, denuding the humanity of another culture, people, or geographical region.

Edward W. Said

#10. What may not be expected in a country of eternal light

Mary Shelley

#11. Ready when you are.

Kerstin Gier

#12. There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?

Francois Hollande

#13. The pen can be just as dangerous as a sword... At least while walking.

A.J. DeJong

#14. Human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism, and ethnocentrism for dealing with "other" cultures.

Edward W. Said

#15. Ah, there you are, Bard," came a familiar voice, and she turned to see Alucard striding over.
"Saints, is that a dress you're in? The crew will never believe it."
"You've got to be kidding me," growled Kell.

V.E Schwab

#16. You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.

Andy Taylor

#17. Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. To say simply that Orientalism was a rationalization of colonial rule is to ignore the extent to which colonial rule was justified in advance by Orientalism, rather than after the fact.

Edward W. Said