Surrealism : Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or
by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control
exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation. Surrealism is based on the belief in the
superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the
disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute
itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.
* There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.
* I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
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