Dinner Party

"I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism."

"Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle."

Judy Chicago

“There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember. The wild roses flower in the woods. Your hand is torn on the bushes gathering the mulberries and strawberries you refresh yourself with. You run to catch the young hares you flay with stones from the rocks to cut them up and eat all hot and bleeding. You know how to avoid meeting a bear on the track. You know the winter fear when you hear the wolves gathering. But you can remain seated for hours in the treetops to await morning. You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.”

“The women say that they could not eat hare veal or fowl, they say that they could not eat animals, but man, yes, they may. He says to them throwing his head back with pride, poor wretches of women, if you eat him who will go to work in the fields, who will produce food consumer goods, who will make the aeroplanes, who will pilot them, who will provide the spermatozoa, who will write the books, who in fact will govern? Then the women laugh, baring their teeth to the fullest extent.”

Les Guérillères (1969) - Monique Wittig

¿Cómo decirte
Hombre
que no te necesito?
No puedo cantar a la liberación femenina
si no te canto
y te invito a descubrir liberaciones conmigo.
No me gusta la gente que se engaña
diciendo que el amor no es necesario
-"témeles, yo le tiemblo"
Hay tanto nuevo que aprender,
hermosos cavernícolas que rescatar,
nuevas maneras de amar que aún no hemos inventado.
A nombre propio declaro
que me gusta saberme mujer
frente a un hombre que se sabe hombre,
que sé de ciencia cierta
que el amor
es mejor que las multi-vitaminas,
que la pareja humana
es el principio inevitable de la vida,
que por eso no quiero jamás liberarme del hombre;
lo amo
con todas sus debilidades
y me gusta compartir con su terquedad
todo este ancho mundo
donde ambos nos somos imprescindibles.
No quiero que me acusen de mujer tradicional
pero pueden acusarme
tantas como cuantas veces quieran
de mujer.

NUEVA TESIS FEMINISTA - Gioconda Belli